Papers by Paulus Kaufmann
Review of: "Koichi Shinohara: Spells, Images, and Mandalas - Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals
Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2018
翻訳・注釈 Tanigawa Ken'ichi: Uber das Jenseits--Wohin die Seele der Japaner strebt (Vorwort / Die Heimat jenseits des Meeres)
D of the state of nature had, as is well known, a great impact on European philosophy and politic... more D of the state of nature had, as is well known, a great impact on European philosophy and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau included such depictions in their philosophical writings and used them to support their particular accounts of legitimate political authority. It is much less well known that political thinkers of the same period in Japan also developed ideas about the state of nature. Ogyū Sorai, Dazai Shundai, Yamagata Daini, Andō Shōeki, and Fujita Tōko, among others, likewise used such accounts to promote their theories about political power and good government. In this paper I will present their ideas of the state of nature and analyse how these ideas are employed in their respective political theories. The depictions of the state of nature I am interested in are methodological tools employed in political argument.1 It is not really surprising
Koichi Shinohara, Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas. Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals, New York, Columbia University Press, 2014
Tanigawa Ken’ichi: Über das Jenseits - Die grünen Gräber von Mino (kommentierte Übersetzung)
Überzeugende Biographien: eine narratologische Analyse einer frühen Lebensbeschreibung Kûkais
In diesem Leib ein Buddha werden – Eine rhetorische Analyse des Sokushinjôbutsugi
Wertheimer read chapters of this book or heard presentations of its central claims and helped me ... more Wertheimer read chapters of this book or heard presentations of its central claims and helped me a lot with their objections and ideas. I also had the chance to present my ideas on various stages of the project in Peter Schaber's colloquium at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Zurich. The colloquium's participants had to endure my early callow ideas and theoretical erring and I am thankful for their steady support. Above all, I would like to thank my supervisor Peter Schaber. It was he who made me aware of the importance of the notion of using people and he accompanied my work in all its phases and in all its ups and downs. Without his critique, encouragement and trust this book could not have been written.
Annotierte Übersetzung aus dem Japanischen: Tanigawa Ken’ichi: Über das Jenseits - Das Meer von Koshi & Aufzeichnung aus Shima
Ogyū Sorai and the End of Philosophy
Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World, 2018
Visuality in Esoteric Buddhism – Awakened with a Single Glance?
Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 2020
In the year 806 CE the Japanese monk Kūkai returned from a journey to China and brought a large a... more In the year 806 CE the Japanese monk Kūkai returned from a journey to China and brought a large amount of visual artefacts with him. Commentators have wondered since what role these visual media play in Kūkai’s Buddhist thought. It has been speculated that the art works show that Kūkai values visual media higher when it comes to transmitting the teaching of the Buddha. Proponents of this view usually refer to a single passage from Kūkai’s writings to warrant their interpretation. By analysing the respective passage in detail and showing how it connects to Kūkai’s other writings, this article argues that Kūkai did not prefer the visual to the verbal in transmitting the dharma. Mandalas certainly play an important role in Kūkai’s thought, but their role differs from what these modern interpreters suppose: first, when Kūkai speaks about ‘mandalas’ he often does not refer to paintings, but to the structure of reality or to ritual procedures. Second, mandala paintings have an ambiguous r...
Form and Content in Kūkai’s Shōjijissōgi
Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World, 2018
Ogyū Sorai on the Content and Intent of Learning
Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation, 2020
CAPE Studies in Applied Philosophy and Ethics Series, 2014
Auslegung der Ausdrücke „Stimme“, „Zeichen“, und „wirkliche Merkmale“
Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
The text offers a new German translation of Kūkai’s famous text
Tanigawa Ken'ichi Über das Jenseits－Wohin die Seele der Japaner strebt (Das Meer von Koshi / Aufzeichnungen aus Shima)
Tanigawa Ken'ichi Uber das Jenseits-Wohim die Seele der Japaner strebt (Hitachi-Das Heilige Land im Osten)
福井大学教育地域科学部紀要, 2012
Tanigawa Ken’ichi Über das Jenseits – Wohin die Seele der Japaner strebt (Niraikanai und die Grünen Inseln)
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