List-Making & Non-Dualism

Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 3:11 a.m.

Anshi Zachary Smith: \u201cWe\u2019ll explore, among other things, the intellectual and philosophical environment in which Zen Buddhism developed in China, in particular the that fact that it contained both a proliferation of dualistic \u201clist-making\u201d and a preponderance of radical non-dualism (perhaps \u201canti-dualism\u201d) as pioneered by some earlier Mahayana Buddhist schools, e.g. the Huayan school. We\u2019ll also see how this balancing act has continued even up to the present day.\u201d