Double Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses

Prologue: Frames Buddhism as philosophy, religion, psychosomatic discipline, symbolic system, and ideology. 1. Do We Know What Buddhism Is?: Critiques Western misunderstandings, Orientalism, Neobuddhism, and reductionist definitions of Buddhism. 2. Buddhism and Rationalities: Discusses logic, reason, language, and alternative forms of rationality. 3. Buddhism and Chinese Thought: Examines Buddhism’s interaction with Confucianism, Daoism, Chan, Tantrism, and yin-yang cosmology. 4. A Hybrid Teaching: Presents Buddhism as a hybrid tradition negotiating transcendence, immanence, ritual, mysticism, and popular religion. 5. The Major Schools: Introduces key Buddhist formations, especially Chan/Zen and Tantric/Vajrayāna traditions. 6. “Transcendental” Concepts: Analyzes major Buddhist concepts such as no-self and emptiness. 7. Twofold Truth: Discusses conventional and ultimate truth as central to Buddhist philosophical reasoning. 8. External Thought: Reflects on language, thought, expression, and Chan modes of discourse. Epilogue: After All …: Reconsiders major binaries such as faith/reason, philosophy/religion, and East/West.