Table of Contents

Common Abbreviations
List of Contributors

John Makeham, Introduction

Part 1: The Indian and Japanese Roots of Yogacara
1. John Powers, Yogacara: Indian Buddhist Origins
2. John Jorgensen, Indra's Network: Zhang Taiyan's Sino-Japanese Personal Networks and the Rise of Yogacara in Modern China

Part 2: Early Appropriations
3. Scott Pacey, Tan Sitong's "Great Unity": Mental Processes and Yogacara in An Exposition of Benevolence
4. Viren Murthy, Equality as Reification: Zhang Taiyan's Yogacara Reading of Zhuangzi in the Context of Global Modernity

Part 3: Yogacara and Modern Science
5. Scott Pacey, Taixu, Yogacara, and the Buddhist Approach to Modernity
6. Erik J. Hammerstrom, Yogacara and Science in the 1920s: The Wuchang School's Approach to Modern Mind Science

Part 4: Yogacara and Confucian Thought
7. Thierry Meynard, Liang Shuming and His Confucianized Version of Yogacara
8. John Makeham, Xiong Shili's Critique of Yogacara Thought in the Context of His Constructive Philosophy

Part 5: The Return to "Genuine Buddhism"
9. Eyal Aviv, Ouyang Jingwu: From Yogacara Scholasticism to Soteriology
10. Dan Lusthaus, Lü Cheng, Epistemology and Genuine Buddhism
11. Chen-kuo Lin, The Uncompromising Quest for Genuine Buddhism: Lü Cheng's
Critique of Original Enlightenment

Part 6: Denouement
12. Jason Clower, Chinese Ressentiment and Why New Confucians Stopped Caring about Yogacara

Glossary
Index

About the Author

John Makeham is Professor of Chinese Studies, School of Culture, History and Language, at The Australian National University. He specializes in Chinese intellectual history, especially the intellectual history of Chinese philosophy.

Reviews

"This volume offers a wide-ranging and deeply sourced argument that Yogacara Buddhism played a much more important role in the development of modern Chinese thought (including philosophy, religion, scientific thinking, social thought, and more) than previously has been recognized. This is a crucial intervention. Any scholar with an interest in modern China will be greatly informed by this volume, which offers a goldmine of detailed exposition and argument."
--Stephen C. Angle, Professor of Philosophy and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University