Sanlun zong

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Sanlun zong ( Chinese  三論宗 , Pinyin East Asian Mādhyamaka , W.-G. sanlun tsung ) was a Chinese form of philosophical school of Madhyamaka the Mahayana - Buddhism . It was introduced into the Chinese Empire under the rule of Emperor Jin Andi in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty . The name of the school goes back to its canonical writings, the so-called three discussions ( 三 論 , Sānlùn , San-lun ), the basic texts of the Indian Madhyamaka. These are the Madhyamaka-śāstra ( 中 論 , Zhōnglùn , Chung-lun ) and the Dvādaśanikāya-śāstra ( 十二 門 論 , Shíèr mén lùn , Shih-erh-wen lun ) from Nagarjuna and the Śata-śāstra ( 百. 論 , B lùn , Pai lun ) by Nagarjuna's disciple Aryadeva .

An important early representative of the Sanlun zong was the monk Jizang (549–623; 吉 蔵 / 吉藏 , Jízàng , Chi-tsang ), who is also generally considered to be their actual founder and author of the important text Sanlun xuanyi ( 三 論 玄 義 , Sānlùn xuányì , San-lun hsüan-i  - "Profound Significance of the Three Discussions") was. In his interpretation of the Sanlun zong, Jizang refers retrospectively and affirmatively to the Chinese monk Sengzhao (378-413; 僧肇 , Sēngzhào , Seng-chao ), an early theorist of the three discussions.

After Jizang's death and in the course of the emergence of other Chinese schools of Buddhism that were also strongly oriented towards Madhyamaka, such as the Tiantai zong and the Huayan zong in the 6th and 7th centuries, the Sanlun zong lost more and more active representatives.

The school was brought to the three kingdoms of Korea as Samnon jong (삼론종) and finally to Japan in the 7th century as Sanron-shū .

literature

  • Ming-Wood Liu: Madhyamaka Thought in China (Sinica Leidensia, 30), Brill Academic Pub 1997. ISBN 9004099840
  • Garfield, Jay L .: The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1995

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