{"id":5385,"date":"2024-07-29T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:10:03","slug":"a-comparison-between-the-gift-debate-in-french-postmodern-thought-and-dana-paramita-in-mahayana-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2024\/07\/29\/a-comparison-between-the-gift-debate-in-french-postmodern-thought-and-dana-paramita-in-mahayana-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comparison Between the \u201cGift Debate\u201d in French Postmodern Thought and D\u0101na-P\u0101ramit\u0101 in Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 31, 2024<\/h6>\n<h3>Emptiness and Otherness: A Comparison Between the \u201cGift Debate\u201d in French Postmodern Thought and <em>D\u0101na-P\u0101ramit\u0101<\/em> in Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism<\/h3>\n<p>Mingyi Xiao<br \/>\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n<p>This article delves into the intersection of Western postmodern thought\u2019s \u201cgift debate,\u201d rooted in Marcel Mauss&#8217;s work and continued by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, and Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism&#8217;s practice of <em>d\u0101na<\/em> (almsgiving). Examining parallels, the paper identifies resonances in two dimensions. Firstly, in the realm of truth, the wisdom of \u201cthree-fold emptiness\u201d in Madhyamaka Buddhism offers insights into the paradoxical nature of the gift, reconciling Derrida\u2019s scarcity and Marion\u2019s abundance perspectives. Secondly, ethically, the emphasis on the \u201cother\u201d in the gift prompts reflection on d\u0101na&#8217;s motives, deepening our understanding of self-other relationships in Buddhism. This exploration seeks to facilitate a comparative dialogue between postmodern thought and Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism, unraveling philosophical, ethical, and religious dimensions within the act of giving.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2024\/07\/Xiao_24_-FD-final.pdf\"> Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 31, 2024 Emptiness and Otherness: A Comparison Between the \u201cGift Debate\u201d in French Postmodern Thought and D\u0101na-P\u0101ramit\u0101 in Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism Mingyi Xiao University of California, Santa Barbara This article delves into the intersection of Western postmodern thought\u2019s \u201cgift debate,\u201d rooted in Marcel Mauss&#8217;s work and continued by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2024\/07\/29\/a-comparison-between-the-gift-debate-in-french-postmodern-thought-and-dana-paramita-in-mahayana-buddhism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Comparison Between the \u201cGift Debate\u201d in French Postmodern Thought and D\u0101na-P\u0101ramit\u0101 in Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[333294],"tags":[2720,2642,2648,2731,2668,2594,333299,333298,1317,2809,2592],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-31-2024","tag-bodhisattva","tag-chinese-buddhism","tag-derrida","tag-emptiness","tag-japanese-buddhism","tag-mahayana","tag-marion","tag-mauss","tag-philosophy","tag-postmodernism","tag-theravada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1oR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}