An Embracing Thought: Contemporary Sōtō Interpretations of Hishiryō
The term hishiryō (非思量 nonthinking), which appears in various writings and sermons by Dōgen Zenji, has long kept Buddhologists, Sōtō scholars and practitioners alike curious about its meaning and content. On the one hand, sectarian sources show that hishiryō can be understood as a description of the...
| Published in: | Contemporary buddhism |
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Contemporary buddhism
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| Summary: | The term hishiryō (非思量 nonthinking), which appears in various writings and sermons by Dōgen Zenji, has long kept Buddhologists, Sōtō scholars and practitioners alike curious about its meaning and content. On the one hand, sectarian sources show that hishiryō can be understood as a description of the mental state that characterizes the practice of zazen, yet on the other hand, these same sources depict it in terms of the very physical posture and actual enactment of the practice. Recent studies by Harada Kōdō (1935-2000) and Tsunoda Tairyū (1957-), leading scholars of Sōtō theology from Komazawa University, discuss this multi-coloured nature of hishiryō through a close philological inspection. Their analysis shows that hishiryō should be understood as a nondual category that points back to the actual performance of zazen, thus limited neither to the mental nor to the physical aspects of the practice. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7953 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Contemporary buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14639947.2016.1164948 |