000 01897nam a2200157Ia 4500
020 _a978-0824514521
100 _aYoshinori, Takeuchi Ed.
245 _aBuddhist spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Early Chinese
260 _c1995
_bThe Crossroad
_aNew York
300 _axxvi, 428 p.
_b24 cm ; Hard Bound
500 _a$19.95
505 _aThe 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
520 _aBuddhism 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.
650 _aReligion
_aBuddhism
942 _cBK
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