Emptiness of Transcendence: The Inconceivable and Invisible in Chinese Buddhist Thought

This chapter deals with the denial of the ontological sense of transcendence from a Chinese Buddhist point of view. Buddhist sources usually emphasize that everything we encounter or experience in the world we inhabit comes to our attention as a referent

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Nahum Brown • William Franke Editors

Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy

Editors Nahum Brown The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China

ISBN 978-3-319-43091-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43092-8

William Franke Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt Place Nashville, Tennessee, USA

ISBN 978-3-319-43092-8 (eBook)

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge permission to adapt and reuse previously published or forthcoming material as follows: Michael Eckert, “Future as Transcendence: On a Central Problem in Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Religion,” translated by [person] from “Zukunft als Transzendenz,” in Ernst Blochs Vermittlungen zur Theologie, Ed. Deuser Hermann von und Peter Steinacker. München: KaiserGrünewald, 1983. 128–143. William Franke, “Classical Chinese Thought and the Sense of Transcendence,” adapted from sections of chapter 3 of Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions Without Borders. Albany: SUNY, forthcoming. Yonghua Ge, “Transcendence, Immanence, and Creation: A Comparative Study of Christian and Daoist Thoughts with Special Reference to Robert Neville,” Philosophy East and West, forthcoming. Heiner Roetz, “Chinese Studies and Chinese Dissidents: Who Is Engaged in the ‘Complicity with Power?,’ Translated by Mario Wenning from ‘Die Chinawissenschaften und die chinesischen Dissidenten. Wer betreibt die ‚Komplizenschaft mit der Macht‘?” in Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 35 (2011): 47–79. München: Iudicium Verlag, 2013.

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Contents

Preface

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Introduction

xi

Part I The Debate: Methodolo