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Buddhism and Deconstruction : towards a comparative semiotics / Wang Youxuan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781136845734
  • 1136845739
  • 1306580188
  • 9781306580182
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Buddhism and Deconstruction : Towards a Comparative Semiotics.DDC classification:
  • 294.30951 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ7235
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword ; Preface; Introduction: The pursuit of signs; 1. Three grades of understanding in the Hīnayāna analytic system: A structural study of the list of seventy-five factors; 2. Undoing the Hīnayāna Onto-epistemological categories: A semiotic approach to the list of eighteen points about emptiness; 3. Three ways of looking at the un-arisen: The Same in Kumārajīva's Madhyamaka system; 4. Dialectic of construction and de-construction in the Vijñānavāda system: The Same in Paramārtha's Shèlùn system.
5. Deconstruction of time in Dharmapāla's commentary on Āryadeva's Treatise in Four Hundred Verses: The Same in Xuánzàng's Făxiàng system6. Three ways of looking at the un-arisen in French deconstruction: Derrida's conception of the Same; Afterword: Three semiotic models; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumârajîva (344-413 CE), Paramârtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mahâ-Prajñâpâramitâ-upadeúa-Úâstra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhâva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.húataka-úâstra-kârika). Focusing its attention on the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of samatâ, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword ; Preface; Introduction: The pursuit of signs; 1. Three grades of understanding in the Hīnayāna analytic system: A structural study of the list of seventy-five factors; 2. Undoing the Hīnayāna Onto-epistemological categories: A semiotic approach to the list of eighteen points about emptiness; 3. Three ways of looking at the un-arisen: The Same in Kumārajīva's Madhyamaka system; 4. Dialectic of construction and de-construction in the Vijñānavāda system: The Same in Paramārtha's Shèlùn system.

5. Deconstruction of time in Dharmapāla's commentary on Āryadeva's Treatise in Four Hundred Verses: The Same in Xuánzàng's Făxiàng system6. Three ways of looking at the un-arisen in French deconstruction: Derrida's conception of the Same; Afterword: Three semiotic models; Bibliography; Index.

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumârajîva (344-413 CE), Paramârtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mahâ-Prajñâpâramitâ-upadeúa-Úâstra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhâva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.húataka-úâstra-kârika). Focusing its attention on the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of samatâ, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.