Hua Yen Buddhism

Author : Francis H. Cook
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271038049

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Hua-Yen Buddhism by Francis H. Cook Pdf

Hua-yen is regarded as the highest form of Buddhism by most modern Japanese and Chinese scholars. This book is a description and analysis of the Chinese form of Buddhism called Hua-yen (or Hwa-yea), Flower Ornament, based largely on one of the more systematic treatises of its third patriarch. Hua-yen Buddhism strongly resembles Whitehead's process philosophy, and has strong implications for modern philosophy and religion. Hua-yen Buddhism explores the philosophical system of Hua-yen in greater detail than does Garma C.C. Chang's The Buddhist Teaching of Totality (Penn State, 1971). An additional value is the development of the questions of ethics and history. Thus, Professor Cook presents a valuable sequel to Professor Chang's pioneering work. The Flower Ornament School was developed in China in the late 7th and early 8th centuries as an innovative interpretation of Indian Buddhist doctrines in the light of indigenous Chinese presuppositions, chiefly Taoist. Hua-yen is a cosmic ecology, which views all existence as an organic unity, so it has an obvious appeal to the modern individual, both students and layman.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0824816978

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Entry Into the Inconceivable by Thomas Cleary Pdf

Entry Into the Inconceivable is an introduction to the philosophy of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism, one of the cornerstones of East Asian Buddhist thought. Cleary presents a survey of the unique Buddhist scripture on which the Hua-yen teaching is based and a brief history of its introduction into China. He also presents a succinct analysis of the essential metaphysics of Hua-yen Buddhism as it developed during China's golden age and full translations of four basic texts by seminal thinkers of the school.

Author : Robert M. Gimello,Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0824808355

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Studies in Ch'an and Hua-Yen by Robert M. Gimello,Peter N. Gregory Pdf

¿Contains well-researched and specialized studies in the history of these two important East Asian Buddhist traditions.... It presents some of the best work of younger scholars who are making available to the English-speaking world the fruits of Japanese scholarship and building upon them.¿ ¿Religious Studies Review

Author : Thomas F. Cleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X030119575

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Entry Into the Inconceivable by Thomas F. Cleary Pdf

Entry Into the Inconceivable is an introduction to the philosophy of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism, one of the cornerstones of East Asian Buddhist thought. Cleary presents a survey of the unique Buddhist scripture on which the Hua-yen teaching is based and a brief history of its introduction into China. He also presents a succinct analysis of the essential metaphysics of Hua-yen Buddhism as it developed during China's golden age and full translations of four basic texts by seminal thinkers of the school.

Author : Steve Odin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438414911

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Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism by Steve Odin Pdf

This study establishes a comprehensive transcultural dialogue between Whitehead's process metaphysics and East Asian Hua-yen Buddhism, including both the profound parallels and the doctrinal debates that arise between these two traditions. To advance this dialogue, Dr. Odin has called upon several other Western hermeneutical systems in order to radically reinterpret Hua-yen modes of thought: phenomenology, depth psychology, linguistic analysis, and dialectical discourse. Of special interest is Dr. Odin's exposition of Korean Hua-yen (or Hwaom) Buddhism, including a full translation of the famous Ocean Seal (with Autocommentary) composed by Uisang (625-702), the first patriarch of Korean Hua-yen Buddhism. This is the first published translation of a major Korean Buddhist's treatise into English.

Author : Imre Hamar
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hua yan Buddhism
ISBN : 344705509X

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Reflecting Mirrors by Imre Hamar Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the Huayan school of East Asian Buddhism in a Western language. This school, which received its name from the Chinese translation of the important Mahayana scripture, the Buddhavatam sakasutra, flourished in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907) and spread to Korea and Japan as well. The reader gains an insight into the development of Huayan Buddhism: The compilation of its base text, the Buddhavatam sakasutra, the establishment of Huayan tradition as a special form of East Asian Buddhism and its visual representations. The book consists of five chapters: 1. State of Field, 2. The Buddhavatam. sakasutra, 3. Huayan in China, 4. Hwaom/Kegon in Korea and Japan, and 5. Huayan/Hwaom/Kegon Art. The following scholars contributed to this volume: Aramaki Noritoshi, Jana Benicka, Choe Yeonshik, Bernard Faure, Frederic Girard, Imre Hamar, Huang Yi-hsun, Ishii Kosei, Kimura Kiyotaka, Charles Muller, Jan Nattier, Otake Susumu, Joerg Plassen, Wei Daoru, Dorothy Wong, Zhu Qingzhi. Included are bibliographies of secondary sources on Huayan Buddhism in Western languages, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Author : Robert M. Gimello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Hua yan Buddhism
ISBN : IND:30000078382979

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Zhiyan, (602-668) and the Foundations of Huayan Buddhism by Robert M. Gimello Pdf

Author : 賢度法師
Publisher : 財團法人台北市華嚴蓮社
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Development of the Hua-yen School During The Tang Dynasty（641A.D.TO 845 A.D.） by 賢度法師 Pdf

Author : Garma C C Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135029586

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The Buddhist Teaching of Totality by Garma C C Chang Pdf

Originally published in 1971. Long regarded as a classic, this volume is one of the most systematic treatments of Hwa Yen to have appeared in the English language. With excellently translated selections of Hwa Yen readings, factual information and discussion, it is highly recommended to readers whose interests in Buddhism incline toward the metaphysical and phenomenological.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 1656 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834824096

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The Flower Ornament Scripture by Thomas Cleary Pdf

Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. This one-volume edition contains Thomas Cleary's definitive translation of all thirty-nine books of the sutra, along with an introduction, a glossary, and Cleary's translation of Li Tongxuan's seventh-century guide to the final book, the Gandavyuha, "Entry into the Realm of Reality."

Author : Sin-wai Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429717987

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Buddhism In Late Ch'ing Political Thought by Sin-wai Chan Pdf

This book is a revised version of the doctoral thesis I presented to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1977. It is basically an attempt to study the religious, cultural and political significance of Buddhism in late Ch'ing intellectual thought through an examination of the writings of a few influential figures like liang Ch'i-ch'ao, K'ang Yu-wei, Chang Ping-lin, and particularly T'an Ssu-t'ung. My findings reveal that Buddhism came to play a part in these reformers' thought as a result of several factors: the rekindled interest in Buddhism brought about through the efforts of laymen such as Yang Wen-hui, the need to find a counter-balance to Christianity, the search for a new unifying ideology for China as Confucianism crumbled before the challenge from the West, and the immense potentiality of Buddhism to cater for the intellectuals' diverse cultural and political purposes. The masterpiece of T'an Ssu-t'ung, entitled An Exposition of Benevolence (Jen-hsiieh), is chosen here to exemplify the use of Buddhism in late Ch'ing political thought. Buddhism not only served as the all-embracing school of his eclectic synthesis, it also formed the foundation of the major concepts in the treatise, and was closely related to his radical thinking.

Author : Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082482623X

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Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism by Peter N. Gregory Pdf

This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.

Author : Daniel A. Getz,Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824826817

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Buddhism in the Sung by Daniel A. Getz,Peter N. Gregory Pdf

New paperback edition The Sung Dynasty (960–1279) has long been recognized as a major watershed in Chinese history. Although there are recent major monographs on Sung society, government, literature, Confucian thought, and popular religion, the contribution of Buddhism to Sung social and cultural life has been all but ignored. Indeed, the study of Buddhism during the Sung has lagged behind that of other periods of Chinese history. One reason for the neglect of this important aspect of Sung society is undoubtedly the tenacity of the view that the Sung marked the beginning of an inexorable decline of Buddhism in China that extended down through the remainder of the imperial era. As this book attests, however, new research suggests that, far from signaling a decline, the Sung was a period of great efflorescence in Buddhism. This volume is the first extended scholarly treatment of Buddhism in the Sung to be published in a Western language. It focuses largely on elite figures, elite traditions, and interactions among Buddhists and literati, although some of the book’s essays touch on ways in which elite traditions both responded to and helped shape more popular forms of lay practice and piety. All of the chapters in one way or another deal with the two most important elite traditions within Sung Buddhism: Ch’an and T’ien-t’ai. Whereas most previous discussions of Buddhism in the Sung have tended to concentrate on Ch’an, the present volume is notable for giving T’ien-t’ai its due. By presenting a broader and more contextualized picture of these two traditions as they developed in the Sung, this work amply reveals the vitality of Buddhism in the Sung as well as its embeddedness in the social and intellectual life of the time.

Author : Thomas F. Cleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0824846990

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Entry Into the Inconceivable by Thomas F. Cleary Pdf

Author : Fazang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X004861724

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An English Translation of Fa-Tsang's Commentary on the Awakening of Faith by Fazang Pdf

Fa-Tsang (643-712) was an important early figure in the development of Huayen Buddhism and is counted by the Third Patriach and first great systematizer of the school.