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Introduction by Jamie HUBBARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Source Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Bibliographic and Linguistic Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxixi
PART ONE
The What and Why of Critical Buddhism
Paul L. SWANSON Why They Say Zen Is Not Buddhism:
Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature . . . . 3
Dan LUSTHAUS Critical Buddhism and Returning
to the Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
HAKAMAYA Noriaki Critical Philosophy versus Topical Philosophy . . . 56
Jamie HUBBARD Topophobia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
HAKAMAYA Noriaki Scholarship as Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Paul J. GRIFFITHS The Limits of Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
MATSUMOTO Shirõ Comments on Critical Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
PART TWO
In Search of True Buddhism
MATSUMOTO Shirõ The Doctrine of Tath„gata-garbha
Is Not Buddhist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Sallie B. KING The Doctrine of Buddha-Nature
Is Impeccably Buddhist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
YAMABE Nobuyoshi The Idea of Dh„tu-v„da in Yogacara
and Tath„gata-garbha Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
MATSUMOTO Shirõ & A Critical Exchange on the
YAMABE Nobuyoshi Idea of Dh„tu-v„da . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
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YAMAGUCHI Zuihõ The Core Elements of Indian Buddhism Introduced
into Tibet: A Contrast with Japanese Buddhism . . 220
MATSUMOTO Shirõ The Meaning of “Zen” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Steven HEINE Critical Buddhism and Dõgen’s Shõbõgenzõ:
The Debate over the 75-Fascicle and
12-Fascicle Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Peter N. GREGORY Is Critical Buddhism Really Critical? . . . . . . . . . . 286
LIN Chen-kuo Metaphysics, Suffering, and Liberation:
The Debate between Two Buddhisms . . . . . . . . 298
TAKASAKI Jikidõ Thoughts on Dh„tu-v„da and
Recent Trends in Buddhist Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 314
SUEKI Fumihiko A Reexamination of Critical Buddhism . . . . . . . 321
PART THREE
Social Criticism
HAKAMAYA Noriaki Thoughts on the Ideological Background
of Social Discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
MATSUMOTO Shirõ Buddhism and the Kami: Against Japanism . . . . 356
Ruben L. F. HABITO Tendai Hongaku Doctrine and
Japan’s Ethnocentric Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
MATSUMOTO Shirõ The Lotus Sutra and Japanese Culture . . . . . . . . 388
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
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