부산대학교 도서관

Matsumoto Shiro asserts that Jizang was a monistic realist and that his Buddhist ideas belong to 'monistic realism' （一元實在論） as a type of 'generation-emanation theory' （流出生成論）. This article plans to unravel Jizang’s viewpoint and argument on tathāgatagarbha or buddha-dhātu so as to examine whether Matsumoto Shiro’s understanding of tathāgatagarbha or buddha-dhātu is correct. This article brings out the following major viewpoints: 1. The 'monistic realism' and 'source realism' （根源實在論） argued by Matsumoto Shiro cannot truthfully reflect Jizang’s thoughts. 2. The discussion in Matsumoto Shiro’s text does not go profoundly, and his assertion is not authentic. There are two reasons for this: (1) he takes the doctrine of tathāgatagarbha/buddha-dhātu as the 'dhātu-vāda' and extends it in the discussion of Jizang’s thoughts; (2) he does not distinguish 'conventional truth' from 'ultimate truth,' so that he only takes the former approach to understanding Jizang’s thoughts. 3. The various views and argument raised by Jizang on the issues of tathāgatagarbha/buddha-dhātu do not prove that he was a monistic realist.