Xiaodao lun
The Xiaodao lun ( Chinese 笑道 論 / 笑道 论 , Pinyin Xiàodào lùn , W.-G. Hsiao-tao lun , English Laughing at the Tao - " Laughing at the Dao") by the Daoist renegade and mathematician Zhen Luan ( 甄鸞 ) reg from the year 570 the reign of Emperor Wu (. 560-78) of the Northern Zhou dynasty (556-581) is a polemic about the absurdity of the Taoist religion . It reproduces the debates between the followers of Buddhism and Daoism in medieval China in the 6th century. The absurdities and contradictions of Daoist teaching, mythology , rituals and religious practices are revealed from a Buddhist perspective.
Editions and translations
- The work is contained in the Buddhist canon in the Guang hongming ji廣 弘 明 集 (T. 2103).
- Livia Kohn : Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1995. (Translation)
literature
- Judith Ammon: The Xiaodao lun: a medieval polemic about the ridiculousness of the Daoist religion. How Zhen Luan laughed for the emperor's favor. Hamburg, 1994 (Hamburg, Univ., Mag.-Schr., 1994).
- Livia Kohn: Taoist Scriptures as Mirrored in the Xiaodao lun. In: Taoist Resources. Volume 4, No. 1 (February 1993), ISSN 1061-8805 , pp. 47-69.