The Unlikely Buddhologist
Tiantai Buddhism in Mou Zongsan's New Confucianism
Biographical note
Jason T. Clower, Ph.D. (2008) in the Study of Religion, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Chico. He studies the Buddhist-Confucian relationship in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Readership
Scholars of Chinese Buddhism, contemporary Confucianism, and modern Chinese intellectual history, particularly where the relationship of Confucians and Buddhists is concerned, as well anyone curious about contemporary Chinese philosophy.
Reviews
“Clower’s study is very informative and well written. The reader is gradually introduced into the complexities of the problems tackled by Mou, but without ever being lost. Clower shows himself to be a great pedagogue, using many examples and illustrations, he does so with a critical mind and a nice touch of humor.”
“I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the relationship between Confucianism and Buddhism in modern China.”
Thierry Meynard, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Chinese Cross Currents (April 2012)
“I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the relationship between Confucianism and Buddhism in modern China.”
Thierry Meynard, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Chinese Cross Currents (April 2012)
Table of contents
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Mou Zongsan, His Times, and His Aims
Chapter Two: “Philosophy” and the Building Blocks of Mou’s Universe
Chapter Three: What the Buddha Taught – The Fable of the Five Periods
Chapter Four: The Buddhist Philosophers
Chapter Five: Where Buddhists Go Wrong
Chapter Six: So What Good is Buddhism?
Chapter Seven: Toward an Appraisal of Mou’s Use of Buddhist Philosophy
Chapter One: Mou Zongsan, His Times, and His Aims
Chapter Two: “Philosophy” and the Building Blocks of Mou’s Universe
Chapter Three: What the Buddha Taught – The Fable of the Five Periods
Chapter Four: The Buddhist Philosophers
Chapter Five: Where Buddhists Go Wrong
Chapter Six: So What Good is Buddhism?
Chapter Seven: Toward an Appraisal of Mou’s Use of Buddhist Philosophy
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