Hakamaya, N.

PersonType	Category:Authors of Japanese Works Category:Ordained (Monks and Nuns) Category:Zen Buddhist Teachers Category:Professors
MainNamePhon	Hakamaya Noriaki
YearBirth	1943
languageprimary	Japanese
affiliation	Komazawa University
ReligiousAffiliation	Sōtō Zen
publications	For a substantial list of Hakamaya Noriaki's works, see Hubbard, Jamie, and Paul L. Swanson. Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm over Critical Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Hakamaya Noriaki is a Japanese Buddhist scholar who is associated with what is known as "Critical Buddhism." According to Jamie Hubbard, "The term critical Buddhism (hihan Bukkyō) refers to Hakamaya Noriaki (1943– ) and Matsumoto Shirō’s (1950– ) critique of Buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) and original enlightenment (hongaku) as not Buddhist. Theological and apologetic in nature, yet using the traditional textual and philological methods of academic scholarship (both scholars are specialists in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist studies), critical Buddhism asserts that Buddha-nature and similar doctrines are examples of Hindu-like thinking of a substantial self (ātman), which Buddhism opposes with the doctrines of no-self and causality (pratītyasamutpāda). Critical Buddhism further asserts that these monistic doctrines deny language and thinking in favor of an ineffable and nonconceptual mysticism contrary to the discriminating awareness (prajñā) and selfless compassion that constitutes Buddhist awakening." (Source: "Critical Buddhism (Hihan Bukkyō)." In Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume 1, 189. Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Buddhism_2%20Vols_%20Buswell.pdf)
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Noriaki Hakamaya

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

According to East Asian Buddhism, the intrinsic enlightenment of all sentient beings. This is obscured by the many stains present in the ālayavijñāna. When these are purified, the natural state of enlightenment is recovered, a status known as "actualized enlightenment."

Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding.