I am right if I say that this is the person who has the most influence on the field of Buddhist studies in the world. His name is J., who has a hairy body of about 5, 6 feet in height. Garfield (Jay L. Garfield). The field of Buddhist studies is very broad. It covers a number of fields such as philosophy, philology, religious studies, cultural studies, psychological studies. But in the face of all these fields, the biggest problem for Buddhist scholars was how to combine Buddhist studies with mainstream Western subjects. Garfield can be called the successful person among those who answered that problem.
Garfield first studied Western philosophy, then learned Tibetan, Sanskrit and other languages and entered Buddhist studies. Engaging Buddhism, which he wrote, is a great work that leads to the point I mentioned earlier. Garfield, who has authored or edited nearly 30 books, is a well-known figure in Buddhist studies at any university in any country in the world.
Through Engaging Buddhism, Garfield made an invitation to Western philosophers. Come and look at Buddhism more openly. It was extremely successful. There were various conversations about it from all over the world. Reviews were written. Not only that, Garfield gave a pen to all the non-Buddhists who think that Buddhism is only for Nirvana, that Buddhism is a living philosophy that can be connected to everything in our lives.
Cross-cultural philosophy is another valuable idea that Garfield gave to the world. There, Garfield said, without drawing boundaries such as Western, Indian, etc., in the study of philosophy, the proposal to take the whole human thought together and study it.
Garfield's latest analysis was Buddhist morality. Tracing the morals taught in Buddhism from Buddhaghosa Thero's Visuddhimagga to Shantideva Thero's Bodhicharyavatara, he points out that Buddhism talks about a state of moral phenomenology. It is different from all the ideas that have been presented on the subject so far. Another idea of his is that Buddhist morality can be studied as a version of naturalism.
He is a person who especially appreciates the Buddhist anatma philosophy, and is a person who severely criticizes the mistake made by many Western scholars to combine foundationalism with metaphysics in the creation of Western philosophy.
He came to our university recently. Talk about that Buddhism and Ahimsa. Here is a photo I took at that time. (left)
So that day we had the opportunity to spend time with him and talk about various topics about philosophy.
Although he was a great scholar who captivated the world, we realized that he was a humble man who lived an unbelievably simple life. To put it simply, Buddhism is not just another subject for Garfield. He embraced Buddhism in his life and lived accordingly.
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