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Rainer Schulzer provides the first comprehensive study, in English, of the modern Japanese philosopher Inoue Enryō (1858–1919). Enryō was a key figure in several important intellectual trends in Meiji Japan, including the establishment of academic philosophy, the public campaign against superstition, the permeation of imperial ideology, and the emergence of modern Japanese Buddhism. As one of the most widely read intellectuals of his time and one of the first Japanese authors ever translated into Chinese, an understanding of Enryō's work and influence is indispensable for understanding modern East Asian intellectual history. His role in spreading the terminology of modern East Asian humanities reveals how later thinkers such as Nishida Kitarō and Suzuki T. Daisetsu emerged; while his key principles, Love of Truth and Protection of Country, illustrate the tensions inherent in Enryō's enlightenment views and his dedication to the rise of the Japanese empire. The book also presents a systematic reconstruction of what was the first attempt to give Buddhism a sound philosophical foundation for the modern world.

Inoue, Enryō, --- Jingshang, Yuanliao, --- 井上圓了, --- 井上円了, --- J1570 --- J1809 --- J2284.70 --- Japan: Philosophy -- individual philosophers -- Kindai (1850s-1945), Bakumatsu, Meiji and Taishō --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō

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Can literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been grappling with these questions for centuries, and this book attempts to answer them by exploring the relationship between literature and philosophy across the classical and contemporary Buddhist worlds of India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, and North America. Written by leading scholars, the book examines literary texts composed over two millennia, ranging in form from lyric verse, narrative poetry, panegyric, hymn, and koan, to novel, hagiography, (secret) autobiography, autofiction, treatise, and sutra, all in sustained conversation with topics in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophies of mind, language, literature, and religion. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, this book deliberately works across and against the boundaries separating three mainstays of humanistic pursuit - literature, philosophy, and religion?by focusing on the multiple relationships at play between content and form in works drawn from a truly diverse range of philosophical schools, literary genres, religious cultures, and historical eras. Overall, the book calls into question the very ways in which we do philosophy, study literature, and think about religious texts. It shows that Buddhist thought provides sophisticated responses to some of the perennial problems regarding how we find, create, and apply meaning - on the page, in the mind, and throughout our lives.

Buddhist literature --- Literature --- Philosophy. --- Indian religions --- Philosophy --- Buddhism --- J5509 --- J1809 --- J1890 --- J1000 --- S13A/0345 --- S37/0600 --- History and criticism --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- literature --- Japan: Philosophy --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: philosophy and theory --- Buddhism outside China, Tibet, Mongolia and Japan--Buddhist philosophy, thought and psychology --- Buddhist literature. --- History and criticism.