Contents

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 Shir Comments on Critical Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
PART TWO

In Search of True Buddhism MATSUMOTO Shir The Doctrine of Tathgata-garbha Is Not Buddhist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Sallie B. KING The Doctrine of Buddha-Nature Is Impeccably Buddhist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 YAMABE Nobuyoshi The Idea of Dhtu-vda in Yogacara and Tathgata-garbha Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 MATSUMOTO Shir & A Critical Exchange on the YAMABE Nobuyoshi Idea of Dhtu-vda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

YAMAGUCHI Zuih The Core Elements of Indian Buddhism Introduced into Tibet: A Contrast with Japanese Buddhism . . 220 MATSUMOTO Shir The Meaning of Zen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Steven HEINE Critical Buddhism and Dgens Shbgenz: 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 Jikid Thoughts on Dhtu-vda 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 Shir Buddhism and the Kami: Against Japanism . . . . 356 Ruben L. F. HABITO Tendai Hongaku Doctrine and Japans Ethnocentric Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 MATSUMOTO Shir The Lotus Sutra and Japanese Culture . . . . . . . . 388

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

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