Xìng shàn’è lùn 性善惡論
Treatise on the Good-and-Evil of [Buddha-]Nature by 傳燈 (Chuándēng / Yōuxī Chuándēng, 著)
About the work
A six-juan late-Míng polemical-doctrinal treatise by Yōuxī Chuándēng 幽溪傳燈 (1554–1628) defending the Tiāntái xìngjù’è 性具惡 (buddha-nature inherently includes evil) doctrine against late-Míng Pure Land syncretist criticism (particularly from Yúnqī Zhūhóng 雲棲祩宏 (雲棲祩宏, 1535–1615)). The work is one of the principal late-Míng Tiāntái-Pure Land polemical exchanges and a major late-Míng restatement of the foundational Sòng shānjiā doctrinal commitment.
Abstract
Chuándēng’s Xìng shàn’è lùn is one of the most ambitious late-Míng Tiāntái doctrinal productions and the principal late-Míng defense of the xìngjù’è doctrine. The composition is bracketed within Chuándēng’s mature productive period c. 1580–1628.
Translations and research
- Ziporyn, Brook. Evil and/or/as the Good: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.
- Eichman, Jennifer. A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship. Leiden: Brill, 2016. (Treats the late-Míng Tiāntái-Pure Land dispute extensively.)
- Shi Hengqing 釋恆清. Fóxìng sīxiǎng 佛性思想. Taipei: Dōngdà túshū, 1997.