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Buddhist spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Early Chinese

By:

Yoshinori, Takeuchi Ed

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 1995 The Crossroad New YorkDescription: xxvi, 428 p. 24 cm ; Hard BoundISBN:

978-0824514521

Subject(s):

Religion Buddhism

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.

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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

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.

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