a critical study of cumulative penetration vs. interpenetration /
Steve Odin.
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
c1982.
xx, 242 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
SUNY series in systematic philosophy
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: The Hua-yen round-sudden vehicle of non-obstructed interpenetration -- The syncretic harmonization pattern of Hua-yen dialectical thought -- Intercausation and interpenetration -- Linguistic analysis and Hua-yen Buddhism on the simultaneous-mutual-establishment of meanings -- Interpenetration as openness, presence and non-concealment: a phenomenological interpretation -- Interpenetration and sudden enlightenment: the harmonization of Hua-yen theory and Ch'an praxis -- Part 2: A whiteheadian process critique of Hua-yen Buddhism -- Preliminary remarks -- Creative synthesis and emergent novelty -- Causality as the vector transmission of feelings -- Negative prehensions -- A process theory of substance -- Methaphysics of cumulative penetration -- Enlightened perceptivity in the primordial mode of causal feeling and imaginative synthesis -- Universal compassion as sympathetic concernedness -- Ecstatic bliss and aesthetic-value feeling as dipolar contrast -- Final deliverance through transpersonal peace -- Part 3: Theology of the deep unconscious: a reconstruction of process theology -- preliminary remarks -- Whitehead's dipolar God as the collective unconscious -- The collective unconscious and synchronicity: atemporal envisagement in the archetypal imagination.