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Romantic Lie and Chan/Zen Buddhist Truth in Shuzhang

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2020, 13(2), pp.241-264
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2020.13.2.241
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : September 26, 2020
  • Accepted : October 28, 2020
  • Published : October 30, 2020

Park, Jae-hyeon 1

1동명대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this thesis, academic boundaries such as philosophy, literature, religion, and Buddhism are broken. Using René Girard (1923-2015)’s theory of desire as an analysis tool, I tried a new reading of the Shuzhang 書狀 (The Letters of Chan Master Dahui 大慧). Here, the letters sent and received with three people: Sūn yǔ 孫與, Zōngzhí gé 宗直閣, and Céng tiānyóu 曾天遊 were intensively analyzed with the theory of desire. In his letter, he revealed that there is a desire to be recognized for the view and state of Chan, the desire to suppress or shake off emotions, and the desire to live like a monk. And he explained that all these desires are nothing more than mimetic desires, and have nothing to do with Chan or enlightenment.

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