Awakening of Faith and New Confucian Philosophy

John Makeham, PhD (1992), The Australian National University, is Professor Emeritus at that university and also at La Trobe University; recent publications include an annotated translation (with others) of the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith (OUP, 2019).

"The idea that Buddhism played a key role in the development of New Confucianism has long prevailed in academia, but it is not until recent years that such an idea has been critically studied through a series of monographs, mainly published by Brill. This book is one of the excellent works concerning such an important topic... This edited book does a great job of investigating the complex subject of the relationships between the Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith and New Confucianism. Drawing a clearer conclusion on this complicated topic will therefore become possible in the future, based on the finding of this excellent book." - King Pong Chiu, Philosophy East & West, Vol. 72, No. 3, July 2022."The volume comprises 10 excellent chapters on the subject matter that have been written with a careful, discerning, and honed academic style. Although the text might strike the novice as somewhat difficult to follow at times, it is well worth the time of those keen on getting closer to the true face of how different religious and philosophical traditions, which are not infrequently confrontational to each other, ultimately cannot help but mutually enhance each other in terms of strategies of argumentation as well as expressive techniques."- Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (March 2023).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Awakening of Faith and New Confucian PhilosophyJohn Makeham1 Setting the Scene: The Different Perspectives of Yang Wenhui and Ouyang Jingwu on the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith as an Authoritative Statement of Mahāyāna DoctrineJohn Jorgensen2 Debates over the Buddhist Orthodoxy of the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith in the 1920s: The Monk Taixu versus the Layman Wang EnyangJohn Jorgensen3 The Role of the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith in the Development of Xiong Shili’s Ti-Yong MetaphysicsSang Yu 桑雨4 Xiong Shili and the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith as Revealed in Record to Destroy Confusion and Make My Tenets ExplicitJohn Makeham5 Xiong Shili’s Ti-Yong Metaphysics and the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith’s “One Mind, Two Gateways” ParadigmJohn Makeham6 The “Three Greats,” “Three Changes” and “Six Arts” – Lessons Drawn from the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith in Ma Yifu’s New Confucian ThoughtLiu Leheng 劉樂恒7 Being, Seeing, and Believing: Ontological, Epistemological, and Soteriological Commitments in Tang Junyi’s Reading of the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna FaithAdy Van den Stock8 “Authentic Feeling” and the “Two Gateways” and “Three Greats”: Tang Junyi and the Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna FaithLiu Leheng 劉樂恒9 The Supreme Penultimate: The Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith According to Mou ZongsanJason T. Clower10 The Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith and Philosophy of Subjectivity in Modern East Asia: An Investigation Centered on the Debate between the China Institute of Inner Learning and the New ConfuciansLin Chen-kuo 林鎮國