Buddhism and Deconstruction

Towards a Comparative Semiotics

• Author(s): Youxuan Wang,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 242
• ISBN_10: 0700713867
  ISBN_13: 9780700713868
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Philosophy / General , Religion / General , Religion / Buddhism / General , Religion / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumârajîva (344-413 CE), Paramârtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mahâ-Prajñâpâramitâ-upadeúa-Úâstra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhâva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.húataka-úâstra-kârika). Focusing its attention on the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of samatâ, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.