《Swanson- Understanding Chih-i (paper)》.pdf

J ournal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Volume 17 • Number 2 • Winter 1994 GREGORY SCHOPEN The Monastic Ownership of Servants or Slaves: Local and Legal Factors in the Redactional History of Two Vinayas 145 LEONARD W. J. VAN DER KUUP Apropos of Some Recently Recovered Texts Belonging to the Lam bras Teachings of the Sa sky a pa and Ko brag pa 175 DAVID GERMANO Architecture and Absence in the Secret Tantric History of the Great Perfection {rdzogs chen) 203 PAUL L. SWANSON Understanding Chih-i : Through a glass, darkly? 337 BERNARD FAURE In Memorian Michel Strickman 361 TREASURERS REPORT 365 PAUL L . SWANSON Understandin g Chih-i : Through a glass, darkly? Neal Donner an d Daniel B. Stevenson . 1993 . The Great Calming and Contemplation: A Study and Annotated Translation of the First Chapter of Chih-is Mon o chih-kuan . A Kurod a Institut e Book . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, xx : 388 pp . N g Yu-Kwan. 1993 . Tien-tai Buddhism and Early Mddhyamika. Tendai Institute of Hawaii Buddhist Studies Program . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, xviii: 254 pp . Recent Trends The appearanc e of these two volumes in 1993 reflects th e emer- gence of a strong core of Tien-tai Jil5l specialists in the West, and shows that Tien-tai Buddhism is finally getting a fair and deserved hearing . After a long hiatu s following the pioneerin g work of Leon Hurvitz (1960) , we have seen in the last few years th