The means of penetrating truth——Tien- Tai Theory of Knowledge

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The means of penetrating truth

——T'ien - T'ai Theory of Knowledge

Haiyan Shen, Shanghai University

AS/EALLX·4· 2005,S.233-260

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Abstract

In Chih-i’s systematization of Buddhist practice, his theory of truth and knowledge plays a key role in attaining the state of Buddhahood: the knowledge one obtains determines one’s level of penetrating truth of either shallow or deep. To Chih-i, truth and knowledge are two aspects of the same reality, the goal one aims at accomplishing in one’s religious practice. This article presents a descriptive approach to Chih-i’s apprehension of knowledge in the context of his work Abstruse Meaning of the Lotus Sūtra, so that layout and functional structures of his combining conceptualization can be demonstrated.

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