Buddhist spirituality : Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and early Chinese / edited by Takeuchi Yoshinori ; in association with Jan Van Bragt [and others]. [print]

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volume

ISBN:

0824512774
9780824512774

Subject(s):

Buddhism -- History

LOC classification:

BQ266.B813.B833 1993

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Contents:

The message of Gotama Buddha and its earliest interpretations/ G.C. Pande ; Indian Buddhist meditation/ Paul J. Griffiths ; Abhidharma/ Sakurabe Hajime ; Theravada in Southeast Asia/ Winston L. King ; Theravada lands. Sri Lanka/ Maeda Egaku ; Burma/ Winston L. King ; Buddhism in Thai culture/ Sunthorn Na-Rangsi ; Thai spirituality and modernization/ Sulak Sivaraksa ; Monasticism and civilization/ Robert A.F. Thurman ; The sutras. Prajnaparamita and the rise of Mahayana/ Kajiyama Yuichi ; The vimalakirti sutra/ Nagao Gajin ; The Avatamsaka sutra/ Luis O. Gomez ; The Lotus sutra and the essence of Mahayana/ Michael Pye ; Mahayana philosophies. The Madhyamika tradition/ Tachikawa Musashi ; Yogacara/ John P. Keenan ; Buddhist logic : the search for certainty/ Ernst Steinkellner ; The diamond vehicle/ Alex Wayman ; Pure land piety/ Roger J. Corless ; The three jewels in China/ Whalen Lai ; Philosophical schools. San-lun, T'ien-T'ai, and Hua-yen/ Taitetsu Unno ; Yogacara in China/ John P. Keenan ; The spirituality of emptiness in early Chinese Buddhism/ Paul L. Swanson ; Tantric Buddhism in China/ Paul B. Watt.

Summary: Buddhism has focused intensively on the aspect of religion that we call spirituality. No religion has set a higher value on the states of spiritual insight and liberation, and none has set forth so methodically and with such a wealth of reflection the various paths and disciplines by which such states are reached. The present volume covers earliy Buddhism as it unfolded in India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, and China. Despite the great chronological and geographical sweep of this volume, a deliberate effort has been made to identify the distinctive core of Buddhist spirituality. That core is found in two themes that pervade the book and offer a promising point of entry into the immense and often unfamiliar world of Buddhist thought. They are meditation, which is central to Part One ("Early Buddhism and Theravada"), and emptiness, which is recurrent in Parts Two and Three, dealing with the Mahayana movement in India and its acculturation in Tibet and China.

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Buddhism has focused intensively on the aspect of religion that we call spirituality. No religion has set a higher value on the states of spiritual insight and liberation, and none has set forth so methodically and with such a wealth of reflection the various paths and disciplines by which such states are reached. The present volume covers earliy Buddhism as it unfolded in India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, and China. Despite the great chronological and geographical sweep of this volume, a deliberate effort has been made to identify the distinctive core of Buddhist spirituality. That core is found in two themes that pervade the book and offer a promising point of entry into the immense and often unfamiliar world of Buddhist thought. They are meditation, which is central to Part One ("Early Buddhism and Theravada"), and emptiness, which is recurrent in Parts Two and Three, dealing with the Mahayana movement in India and its acculturation in Tibet and China.

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