Buddhist Thought

Williams, Paul; Tribe, Anthony; Wynne, Alexander

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“…orthodox Christianity, understood as the omnipotent, omniscient, all-good, and primordially existent creator deity, who can be thought of as in some sense a person. (Williams (2000), 4)…”

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Towards a Buddhist theism

Zappulli

2022

Rel. Stud.

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My claim in this article is that the thesis that Buddhism has no God, insofar as it is taken to apply to Buddhism universally, is false. I defend this claim by interpreting a central text in East-Asian Buddhism – The Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna – through the lenses of perfect being theology (PBT), a research programme in philosophy of religion that attempts to provide a description of God through a two-step process: (1) defining God in terms of maximal greatness; (2) inferring the properties or attributes that God must have in virtue of satisfying the definition. My argument comprises two steps. First, I argue that, since PBT is a method for providing a description of God starting from a definition of God, any text that contains a PBT ipso facto contains a notion of God. Second, I argue through textual evidence that The Awakening articulates a PBT, concluding that it contains a notion of God. Since the method of PBT leaves open what descriptions are to be inferred, my argument allows me to conclude that a text contains a notion of God without previously committing to any particular conception of the divine, which makes it particularly versatile and powerful.

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“…orthodox Christianity, understood as the omnipotent, omniscient, all-good, and primordially existent creator deity, who can be thought of as in some sense a person. (Williams (2000), 4)…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Buddhist theism

Zappulli

2022

Rel. Stud.

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Dharma : Buddhist

Dessein

2021

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion

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Developing from the etymological meaning of the word, dharma is outlined in its Buddhist meanings. The entry explains how the word dharma in a Buddhist context is, on the one hand, interpreted from within the traditional Indian philosophical and religious spheres, and how, on the other hand, new meanings were given to the word which are exclusively Buddhist. These new meanings are the outcome of the fundamentally different approach Buddhism had to the nature of a person and a person's relation to the world, as well as of the particular Buddhist interpretation of this world as such. These new meanings of the word dharma are intrinsically related to the person of the historical Buddha.

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Orfanidis¹

2020

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion

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Buddhist Thought

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