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...–443) Buddhist reconceptualizations of visual objects and visualization, with a view to illuminate the intellectual foundation for the transition from Lu Ji's 陸機 (261–303) and Liu Xie's 劉勰 (ca. 465–532?) indigenous theories (chap. 2) to Wang Changling's Buddhist-inspired theory of literary creation...

... Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1868–1936), his immersion in a wide range of Buddhist texts before the May Fourth movement, and a close reading of selected poems from Yecao 野草 (Wild Grass) in light of Buddhist philosophy. The author argues that Yogācāra conceptions promoted by Zhang, wanfa weixin 萬法唯心 (all phenomena...

... different phases of literary creation. Comparisons with earlier adaptations of the term by literary and calligraphy critics reveal Wang's unique and innovative use. Finally, looking at a hitherto neglected Buddhist source for Wang, I uncover a partially Buddhistic yi → xiang → yan paradigm for thinking...

... forsaken, 萬事未嘗屏 Worry, sadness, and grievances 憂愁不平氣 12 Surge forward at the darting of the brush. 一寓筆所騁 It's strange that [it is] by a Buddhist monk 頗怪浮屠人 14 Who sees his body as an empty well 視身如丘井 And has kept his life plain and aloof from strife. 頹然寄淡泊 16 Who on earth lets...

... of Lu's and Liu's theories within the broad yi → xiang → yan paradigm. Chapter 3 turns to examine the burgeoning impact of Buddhist thought on the theory of artistic creation by revisiting Zong Bing's famed essay “Preface to the Painting of Landscape” 畫山水序 (hereafter “Preface”). Zong Bing is most...

... perspectives of sand, nonhuman animals, plant species, Mongolians, and Han as multispecies components of a desert ecosystem. An exiled Han scientist attempts to remediate the ravages of Han agrarian practices adopted by Mongolian pastoralists by creating a green biosphere around a Buddhist temple in the desert...

..., and its close relative, Buddhist nothingness or emptiness, are critical psychological and spiritual resources to learn how to die. This practice of negation is a spiritual technology and phármakon (poisonous medicine) for a toxic mind and civilization. In this article, I use the problem of meaning...

... imagery and a calm appreciation of nature,” combined with “the Buddhist quietude of many nature poems” so attractive to a certain West Coast ecological sensibility, makes commentary superfluous? 14 It is not really that Wang Wei leaves nothing more to be said. For Yu, the surface simplicity conceals...

.... This is the inscape of ci poetry. 每一念起,輒設理想排遣之。乃至萬緣俱寂,吾心忽瑩然開朗如滿月,肌骨清涼,不知斯世何世也。斯時若有無端哀怨棖觸於萬不得已;即而察之,一切境象全失,唯有小窗虛幌,筆床硯匣,一一在吾目前。此詞境也。 12 In Chinese philosophical tradition, whether Confucian, Daoist, or Buddhist, Dao enlightenment is almost always realized in a state of tranquility. Emotions must...

... media platforms, Yan An has made an embodied addition to the ancient ritual practice of calligraphic sutra copying. The Heart Sutra (Xin Jing 心經, sk. Prajñāpāramitā Hridaya Sutra) is one of the most widely known, loved, recited, and copied Mahayana Buddhist texts in China. The text is so well-known...

... of Alexandria, Origen Adamantius) all the way up to Coleridge (with his Logosophia project)—of Logos as a kind of conceptual or rational ordering built into the very structure of the world, rendering it apprehensible or graspable by the mind. Admittedly, in the Chinese scene some branches of Buddhist and Daoist...

... parts shows a certain incommensurability between two philosophical traditions. In addition to criticizing Confucianism, Hegel also decries Buddhist practice in China: “Their consciousness of moral abandonment shows itself also in the fact that the religion of Fo is so widely diffused; a religion which...

... representations of almost perpetrated father-daughter incest. The undated Xiangshan baojuan 香山寶卷 (The Precious Scroll of the Fragrant Mountain) tells the story of a Buddhist princess who resists marriage against her father's explicit wishes. Because of her rebellion, she is first brutalized and tortured by him...

...) in Buddhist texts such as the Diamond Sutra ( Jingang jing 金剛經) is revealed with the aid of magical optical vision from the sky. The roaming immortal, riding on the balloon, is able to travel and appreciate the modern world. Two interesting points here are worthy of discussion. First of all, the agility...

...Zong-qi Cai The “establishing yi” ( liyi 立意) of the opening sentence may seem synonymous with Wang Changling's “ zuoyi 作意, zhiyi 置意” (see §§76–77, 85), but it is fundamentally different. While Wang's phrases speak to the Buddhist transcendent state of mind that engenders inscape, Huang's...

... on—suggesting an amalgam of the pre-Qin notion of qing as the essential nature of things, physical or otherwise and the Buddhist notion “All things are only created by the mind,” articulated in the Flower Garland Sutra (Avataṃsaka Sūtra 華嚴經). Reconceived in this way, qing transcends the dichotomy...

...–65 Fan fugu pai 反復古派 (Anti-Archaists), 9 fankong 翻空 (turns in the void), 158 fayi 發意 (first stage of aspiration), 121 Feng Fujing 馮復京 (1573–1622), 169 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814), 222 “Fode pian” 佛德篇 (On Buddha's Virtue), 70 foshen 佛神 (Buddhist spirit), 73...

... biopolitics operates through arrangements of space and time that suppress heterogeneities, the closing essay by Jon Solomon theorizes an “affective community” of all sentient beings, an aggregate of singularities postulated through the encounter of Buddhist philosophy and speculative realism. The volume...

... to the mythical scenes discussed in previous pages, the novel includes many more scenes of supernatural occasions; a whole chapter, for instance, is devoted to the Buddhist ceremony the protagonist's mother holds for his father after his death (chapter 16). Throughout the novel, the narrator exhibits a consistent...

... by and interwoven with infinite structures. The universe is described by him as a big net, which “comprises countless numbers of relations that are dependent on each other and combine in various ways and at various levels.” 64 Drawing on the perspective of Buddhist cosmology, Zhang believed the universe has...