Chinese Buddhist Religious Disputation |
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Authors: | Mary M Garrett |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Communication, Ohio State University, 3016 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1339, USA |
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Abstract: | From about the fourth to the tenth century Buddhist monks in China engaged in formal, semi-public, religious disputation. I describe the Indian origins of this disputation and outline its settings, procedures, and functions. I then propose that this disputation put its participants at risk of performative contradiction with Buddhist tenets about language and salvation, and I illustrate how some chinese Buddhists attempted to transcend these contradictions, subverting disputation through creative linguistic and extra- linguistic strategies. |
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Keywords: | Disputation dialectic logic China Buddhism India performative contradiction Chan Zen |
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