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- Title
MEREOLOGICAL HEURISTICS FOR HUAYAN BUDDHISM.
- Authors
Jones, Nicholaos John
- Abstract
This is an attempt to explain, in a way familiar to contemporary ways of thinking about mereology, why someone might accept some prima facie puzzling remarks by Fazang, such as his claims that the eye of a lion is its ear and that a rafter of a building is identical to the building itself. These claims are corollaries of the Huayan Buddhist thesis that everything is part of everything else, and it is intended here to show that there is a rational basis for this thesis that involves a nonstandard notion of parthood and, importantly, that does not violate the principle of noncontradiction.
- Subjects
HUA yan Buddhism; BUDDHISTS; CHINESE Buddhist literature; EMPTINESS (Philosophy); REDUCTIONISM; WHOLE &; parts (Philosophy)
- Publication
Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy, 2010, Vol 60, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
0031-8221
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pew.0.0115