Tracing Buddhist Responses to the Crisis of Cosmography
| dc.contributor.advisor | Adamek, Wendi Leigh | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ereshefsky, Joshua Ian | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Framarin, Christopher G. | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Vanderspoel, John | |
| dc.date | 2020-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-31T18:04:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-31T18:04:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Buddhists, across different schools and regions, traditionally posited a similar world model — one that is flat and centered by giant Mount Meru. This world model is chiefly featured in Vasubandhu’s fourth century CE text, the Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam. In 1552, Christian missionary Francis Xavier introduced European spherical-world cosmography to Japan, precipitating what this thesis terms the Buddhist ‘Crisis of Cosmography’. Buddhists responded to a challenge of their cosmography non-uniformly. This thesis identifies and traces three different Buddhist responses to the Crisis of Cosmography. The three types of respondents explored in this thesis are 1) the Rejecter (who rejects emergent European science and seeks to uphold the traditional Buddhist world model), 2) the Accepter (who conversely accepts European science and seeks to discard the traditional Buddhist world model), and 3) the Upayer (who cites the traditional Buddhist world model as a pedagogical upāya). To explore these respondents, this thesis primarily examines Japanese and Tibetan sources. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ereshefsky, J. I. (2020). Tracing Buddhist Responses to the Crisis of Cosmography (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38150 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112477 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Buddhism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Buddhism and Science | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vasubandhu | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mount Meru | en_US |
| dc.subject | Buddhist Cosmography | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Religion | en_US |
| dc.title | Tracing Buddhist Responses to the Crisis of Cosmography | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Religious Studies | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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