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Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan

Author : Galen Amstutz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004401525

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Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan by Galen Amstutz Pdf

Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. The pieces reproduced in this set have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity and evolution of Pure Land Buddhism. These selections of previously published articles will serve as an essential starting-point for anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated area of Buddhist studies.

Catalogues of the Harvard-Yenching Library

Author : Harvard-Yenching Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015081373345

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Cultivating Spirituality

Author : Mark L. Blum,Robert F. Rhodes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438439822

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Cultivating Spirituality by Mark L. Blum,Robert F. Rhodes Pdf

Four Shin Buddhist thinkers reflect on their tradition’s encounter with modernity. Cultivating Spirituality is a seminal anthology of Shin Buddhist thought, one that reflects this tradition’s encounter with modernity. Shin (or Jod? Shinsh?) is a popular form of Pure Land Buddhism, the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan, but is only now becoming well known in the West. The lives of the four thinkers included in the book spanned the years 1863–1982, from the Meiji opening to the West to Japan’s establishment as an industrialized democracy and world economic power. Kiyozawa Manshi, Soga Ry?jin, Kaneko Daiei, and Yasuda Rijin, all associated with Kyoto’s ?tani University, dealt with the spiritual concerns of a society undergoing great change. Their philosophical orientation known as “Seishinshugi” (“cultivating spirituality”) provides a set of principles that prioritized personal, subjective experience as the basis for religious understanding. In addition to providing access to work generally unavailable in English, this volume also includes both a contextualizing introduction and introductions to each figure included. “Buddhism, whether in Asia or the West, reveals itself to be a rich tapestry of diverse strands in which pioneers risked their standing and even their very lives to establish new pathways appropriate for their times and places. The editors invite the reader to explore developments in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism as emblematic of this tradition of innovation.” — Buddhadharma

東洋學文獻類目

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015036136557

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Reinventing the Tripitaka

Author : Jiang Wu,Greg Wilkinson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498547581

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Reinventing the Tripitaka by Jiang Wu,Greg Wilkinson Pdf

This volume examines the significance of the Chinese Buddhist canon in modern East Asian Buddhism. Exploring how the Chinese Buddhist canon has evolved and how it is currently utilized, each chapter of this book provides new insights and essential information into the Chinese Buddhist canon during the modern and contemporary periods.

Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism

Author : Aaron P. Proffitt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824893804

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Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism by Aaron P. Proffitt Pdf

What, if anything, is Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism? In 1224, the medieval Japanese scholar-monk Dōhan (1179–1252) composed The Compendium on Esoteric Mindfulness of Buddha (Himitsu nenbutsu shō), which begins with another seemingly simple question: Why is it that practitioners of mantra and meditation rely on the recitation of the name of the Buddha Amitābha? To answer this question, Dōhan explored diverse areas of study spanning the whole of the East Asian Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Although contemporary scholars often study Esoteric Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism as if they were mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed schools of Buddhism, in the present volume Aaron Proffitt examines Dōhan’s Compendium in the context of the eastward flow of Mahayana Buddhism from India to Japan and uncovers Mahayana Buddhists employing multiple, overlapping, so-called “esoteric” approaches along the path to awakening. Proffitt divides his study into two parts. In Part I he considers how early Buddhologists, working under colonialism, first constructed Mahayana Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism as discrete fields of inquiry. He then surveys the flow of Indian Buddhist spells, dhāraṇī, and mantra texts into China and Japan and the diverse range of Buddhist masters who employed these esoteric techniques to achieve rebirth in Sukhāvatī, the Pure Land of Bliss. In Part II, he considers the life of Dōhan and analyzes the monk’s comprehensive view of buddhānusmṛti as a form of ritual technology that unified body and mind, Sukhāvatī as a this-worldly or other-worldly soteriological goal synonymous with nirvana itself, and the Buddha Amitābha as an object of devotion beyond this world of suffering. The work concludes with the first full translation of Dōhan’s Himitsu nenbutsu shō into a modern language.

Watsuji Tetsurô’s Global Ethics of Emptiness

Author : Anton Luis Sevilla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319583532

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Watsuji Tetsurô’s Global Ethics of Emptiness by Anton Luis Sevilla Pdf

This book is a rethinking of ethics and socio-political life through the ideas of Watsuji Tetsurô. Can we build a systematic philosophy of morality, society, and politics, not on the basis of identity and ego, but rather on the basis of selflessness? This book explores such an attempt by the leading ethicist of modern Japan. Using concrete examples and contemporary comparisons, and with careful reference to both English and Japanese sources, it guides the reader through Watsuji’s ideas. It engages three contemporary issues in depth: First, how do we approach the moral agent, as an autonomous being or as a fundamentally relational being? Second, is it the individual or the community that is the starting point for politics? And finally, is ethics something that is globally shared or something fundamentally local? This book aims to be an informative and inspiring resource for researchers, students, and laypersons interested in Buddhist thought.

龍谷大學論集

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4409185

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Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch

Author : John Jorgensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047415770

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Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch by John Jorgensen Pdf

Hui-neng, the patriarchal ancestor of all existing Ch’an/Zen, was invented by Shen-hui (684-758) based on a fusion of Buddhist and Confucian themes. This propaganda led to the creation of a large hagiographical literature that determined the trajectory of Ch’an.

Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China

Author : Mihwa Choi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190459789

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Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China by Mihwa Choi Pdf

In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial piety, a core value of the society. At the same time, death rituals were social occasions, and channels for the outward demonstration of belief in a religiously pluralistic society. During the Northern Song period, however, death rituals increasingly became an arena for political contention as attempts were made to transform these practices from a private matter into one subject to state control. Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China examines how political confrontations over the proper conduct of death rituals during Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) inaugurated a period of Confucian revivalism. Mihwa Choi interprets Northern Song court politics, family ritual practices, burial practices, and the popular imagination of the afterlife as sites of contest between groups of varying social status, political vision, and religious belief. She demonstrates that the oversight of ritual affairs by scholar-officials helped them gain the political upper hand they sought, and, more broadly, fostered a revival of Confucianism as the dominant value system of Chinese society in the period that followed.

Dunhuang Manuscript Culture

Author : Imre Galambos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110727104

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Dunhuang Manuscript Culture by Imre Galambos Pdf

“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.

The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation

Author : Eric M. Greene
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824884444

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The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation by Eric M. Greene Pdf

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long been familiar with the approaches to meditation of the Chan (Zen) School that later became so popular throughout East Asia, these earlier and in some ways more pervasive forms of practice have long been overlooked or ignored. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which these approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing). Translated here into English for the first time, these documents reveal a distinctly visionary form of Buddhist meditation whose goal is the acquisition of concrete, symbolic visions attesting to the practitioner’s purity and progress toward liberation. Both texts are “apocryphal” scriptures: Taking the form of Indian Buddhist sutras translated into Chinese, they were in fact new compositions, written or at least assembled in China in the first half of the fifth century. Though written in China, their historical significance extends beyond the East Asian context as they are among the earliest written sources anywhere to record certain kinds of information about Buddhist meditation that hitherto had been the preserve of oral tradition and personal initiation. To this extent they indeed divulge, as their titles claim, the “secrets” of Buddhist meditation. Through them, we witness a culture of Buddhist meditation that has remained largely unknown but which for many centuries was widely shared across North India, Central Asia, and China.

Prajñā-pāramitā-ratna-guna-Samcaya-gāthā

Author : Akira Yuyama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521143209

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Prajñā-pāramitā-ratna-guna-Samcaya-gāthā by Akira Yuyama Pdf

Dr Yuyama investigates Sanskrit Recension A of the Prajñā-pāramitā-ratna-guna-samcaya-gāthā, a notable example of Buddhist Sanskrit literature at its earliest stage.

文科系文献目錄

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : OSU:32435050564004

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文科系文献目錄 by Anonim Pdf