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On the Zen Buddhist Philosophy of Huineng

Author: QiHao
Tutor: LiYaoNan
School: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Course: Chinese Philosophy
Keywords: Essence Mind Calm and Wisdom No-mark Enlightenment
CLC: B948
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


This thesis is divided into the following three parts. It makes an attempt to analyze the theoretical ideas and the practical proceedings of Zen Philosophy entitled by Huineng (A. D. 638~713) as the outstanding representative of Chinese Buddhism from the implicit routine of the historical textual criticism on the basis of the comprehensive results of the academic researches on the original text of“The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”. The first chapter leads a brief discussion on the lifetime of Huineng from the historical reference of Zen with the comparison of the main contents in different versions of“The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”. In addition, both Huineng and Shenxiu are the disciples or pioneers of the Couple Peaks Mountain Sect of Zen entitled by Hongren whose meditative practical cultivation results in Zen’s distinct style of“the enlightenment of essence”in the south and north of China. The second chapter explores the orientation of the basic theory of the particular idea of“the Non-Dualism of the Ultimate Reality”. The most distinguishing feature of the definitive nature“svabhāva”combines the supreme wisdom“praj?ā”with the presence of the Buddha-nature advocated by Nirvana School accompanied by the core values of Confucianism and New Taoism. Furthermore, the emphasis on the equivalence of“the Return of Calm & Wisdom”interprets the significance of“the Meditative Introspection”in accordance with the holistic perspective in cognition of the ultimate truth. The third chapter expresses the traits of the spiritual cultivation entitled by Huineng which permeate in the religious practice through the ideas of the simplicity as a lack or absence of external constraint without intention by awakening to the fundamental reality in the daily human“life-world”. According to the exposition of the Buddhist teachings by Huineng, the philosophy with innovated comprehension of Zen as an anti-philosophy which demonstrates the unique insights to get rid of any forms of the meditative practice is a concrete way for an individual to enjoy the freedom or aesthetic self straightforwardly in line with daily life by showing one’s original pure mind right here-now.

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