[Buddha-l] japanese zen terms: honbun and shusho

[curt]

Vicente Gonzalez wrote:
> Plato inheritance in Christianism can be more
> directly attached to neoplatonics authors than to Plato and other
> Greeks. 
>   

Well, since we have been talking about McEvilley so recently perhaps I 
can go one step further with this.... I just wanted to say that the 
"neo" Platonists have also been subjected to distorted interpretations 
that they don't deserve (painting them as otherworldly dualists). The 
very word "Neoplatonism" is itself a later (Christian) invention 
intended to pry Plotinus away from Plato - something that Plotinus 
himself would never have stood for. I think it's safe to say that from 
Plotinus to Damascius the later Platonists didn't see anything "neo" 
about what they were up to. An excellent source on the question of 
whether or not the Neoplatonists were really "dualists" is Gregory 
Shaw's "Theurgy and Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus" 
(http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01437-7.html). His answer is 
more or less "no they weren't."

- Curt