Descripción del proyecto
Creencia y ética en la filosofía budista china
El equipo del proyecto CHINBUDDHPHIL, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, contribuirá al estudio histórico y sistemático de la filosofía budista china. Se centrará en la escuela Sanlun, un movimiento sumamente importante derivado del Madhyamaka indio y activo durante un período seminal en la historia del budismo en China. Esta investigación, que se centra en la concepción poco estudiada pero muy original de la escuela sobre la relación entre las creencias y la acción ética, será la primera explicación exhaustiva de la filosofía Sanlun en una lengua occidental. Además, el proyecto evaluará la filosofía Sanlun junto a sus antecedentes indios, las posteriores elaboraciones dentro del budismo chino y los análogos en la filosofía occidental. Así, en CHINBUDDHPHIL se demostrará que los filósofos budistas chinos merecen ser considerados no solo como artefactos históricos, sino también como contribuyentes realmente interesantes y perspicaces ante antiguos problemas filosóficos.
Objetivo
Is it ethical to believe? CHINBUDDHPHIL will explore this basic yet troubling question by reconstructing what is a hitherto largely unstudied yet highly original philosophical conception of how belief relates to ethical action. Substantively, this project will constitute a major contribution to the historical and systematic study of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. It will accomplish this end through specialist research on the unduly neglected Sanlun school: A foundationally important movement active during a seminal period in the epochally transformative history of Buddhism in China. This will be the first comprehensive elaboration of Sanlun philosophy in any Western language. By placing Sanlun into debate with its Indian antecedents, later elaborations within Chinese Buddhism, and analogues in Western philosophy, this project will also forge multiple disciplinary innovations. Thus, within philosophy it will transform our understanding of philosophically valuable traditions by demonstrating that Chinese Buddhist philosophers merit consideration not only as historical artifacts but as genuinely interesting and insightful contributors to live philosophical problems. It will likewise redress the preponderant exclusion of Chinese perspectives from philosophically-oriented scholarship in Buddhist studies, and do so in a manner that bridges it with philologically-oriented Buddhology. And by investigating both the transmission of Indian Buddhist thought into China and its transformation once established there, it will revise the standard chronology of Chinese Buddhist philosophy, theorize India-China as a globalized sphere of dynamic intellectual interaction within trans-cultural Asian studies, and inform scholarship on cultural appropriation and assimilation, enculturation, and acculturation – all from a distinctly non-Eurocentric perspective. Methodologically, CHINBUDDHPHIL will use synchronic hermeneutic-philosophical as well as diachronic text-historical methods.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institución de acogida
1010 Wien
Austria