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Author | : W?nhyo |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824830768 |
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Wonhyo (617-686) is the dominant figure in the history of Korean Buddhism and one of the most influential thinkers in the Korean philosophical tradition. Koreans know Wonhyo in his various roles as Buddhist mystic, miracle worker, social iconoclast, religious proselytist, and cultural hero. Above all else, Wonhyo was an innovative thinker and prolific writer, whose works cover the gamut of Indian and Sinitic Buddhist materials: Some one hundred treatises and commentaries are attributed to him, twenty-three of which are extant today. Wonhyo's importance is not limited to the peninsula, however. His writings were widely read in China and Japan, and his influence on the overall development of East Asian Mah? y? na thought is significant, particularly in relation to the Huayan, Chan, and Pure Land schools. In Cultivating Original Enlightenment, the first volume in The International Association of Wonhyo Studies' Collected Works of Wonhyo series, Robert E. Buswell Jr. translates Wonhyo's longest and culminating work, the Exposition of the Vajrasam? dhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong Non). Wonhyo here brings to bear all the tools acquired throughout a lifetime of scholarship and meditation to the explication of a scripture that has a startling connection to the Korean Buddhist tradition. In his treatise, Wonhyo examines the crucial question of how enlightenment can be turned from a tantalizing prospect into a palpable reality that manifests itself in all activities.
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Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2007-07-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824862082 |
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Wŏnhyo (617–686) is the dominant figure in the history of Korean Buddhism and one of the most influential thinkers in the Korean philosophical tradition. Koreans know Wŏnhyo in his various roles as Buddhist mystic, miracle worker, social iconoclast, religious proselytist, and cultural hero. Above all else, Wŏnhyo was an innovative thinker and prolific writer, whose works cover the gamut of Indian and Sinitic Buddhist materials: Some one hundred treatises and commentaries are attributed to him, twenty-three of which are extant today. Wŏnhyo’s importance is not limited to the peninsula, however. His writings were widely read in China and Japan, and his influence on the overall development of East Asian Mahâyâna thought is significant, particularly in relation to the Huayan, Chan, and Pure Land schools. In Cultivating Original Enlightenment, the first volume in The International Association of Wŏnhyo Studies’ Collected Works of Wŏnhyo series, Robert E. Buswell Jr. translates Wŏnhyo’s longest and culminating work, the Exposition of the Vajrasamâdhi-Sûtra (Kŭmgang Sammaegyŏng Non). Wŏnhyo here brings to bear all the tools acquired throughout a lifetime of scholarship and meditation to the explication of a scripture that has a startling connection to the Korean Buddhist tradition. In his treatise, Wŏnhyo examines the crucial question of how enlightenment can be turned from a tantalizing prospect into a palpable reality that manifests itself in all activities. Introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr.
Author | : Blo-bzaṅ-rgya-mtsho (Phu-khaṅ Dge-bśes.) |
Publisher | : Snow Lion |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
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Presents the classical methods for developing the mind of enlightenment and examines a wide range of obstacles to its development.
Author | : Huai-chin Nan |
Publisher | : Red Wheel |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Download To Realize Enlightenment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"To Realize Enlightment" has been written for contemporary students who want further understanding of the details and practices behind the various schools of self realization. In Master Nan's earlier book, "Working Toward Enlightenment, " he established the framework and references for understanding the path. In this new book, Master Nan discusses how to generate, enter and leave samadhi, and presents details of different types of samadhi and other experiential realms one can encounter in cultivation. Through the introduction of previously untranslated poems and texts, he throws new light on the Zen School and Chinese history. Master Nan describes his own experience on the path, and explaiins that to sit in meditation is not enough. We must transform mental activity and daily behavior, bringing the practice of compassion to all our world activities.
Author | : Jeeloo Liu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-06-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317683846 |
Download Nothingness in Asian Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This collection of essays brings together the work of twenty of the world’s prominent scholars of Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, Neo-Confucian, Japanese and Korean thought to illuminate fascinating philosophical conceptualizations of "nothingness" in both classical and modern Asian traditions. The unique collection offers new work from accomplished scholars and provides a coherent, panoramic view of the most significant ways that "nothingness" plays crucial roles in Asian philosophy. It includes both traditional and contemporary formulations, sometimes putting Asian traditions into dialogue with one another and sometimes with classical and modern Western thought. The result is a book of immense value for students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy. Chapter 20 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author | : Robert E. Carter |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791490300 |
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In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world's social, economic, and environmental problems. Not only is the book a sustained scholarly analysis of both the religious and philosophical roots of Japan's distinctive ethical approach to life, but it also provides the Western reader with a context for understanding Eastern values—values that although familiar to the West tend to be deemphasized. Encounter with Enlightenment begins a horizontal fusion between East and West, and establishes a common ground for mutual understanding and for working toward an ethical approach that could resolve some of the earth's difficulties.
Author | : Richard D. McBride II |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2007-10-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824830873 |
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Western scholarship has hitherto described the assimilation of Buddhism in Korea in terms of the importation of Sino-Indian and Chinese intellectual schools. This has led to an overemphasis on the scholastic understanding of Buddhism and overlooked evidence of the way Buddhism was practiced "on the ground." Domesticating the Dharma provides a much-needed corrective to this view by presenting for the first time a descriptive analysis of the cultic practices that defined and shaped the way Buddhists in Silla Korea understood their religion from the sixth to tenth centuries. Critiquing the conventional two-tiered model of "elite" versus "popular" religion, Richard McBride demonstrates how the eminent monks, royalty, and hereditary aristocrats of Silla were the primary proponents of Buddhist cults and that rich and diverse practices spread to the common people because of their influence. Drawing on Buddhist hagiography, traditional narratives, historical anecdotes, and epigraphy, McBride describes the seminal role of the worship of Buddhist deities—in particular the Buddha Úâkyamuni, the future buddha Maitreya, and the bodhisattva Avalokiteúvara—in the domestication of the religion on the Korean peninsula and the use of imagery from the Maitreya cult to create a symbiosis between the native religious observances of Silla and those being imported from the Chinese cultural sphere. He shows how in turn Buddhist imagery transformed Silla intellectually, geographically, and spatially to represent a Buddha land and sacred locations detailed in the Avataṃsaka Sûtra (Huayan jing/Hwaŏm kyŏng). Emphasizing the importance of the interconnected vision of the universe described in the Avataṃsaka Sûtra, McBride depicts the synthesis of Buddhist cults and cultic practices that flourished in Silla Korea with the practice-oriented Hwaŏm tradition from the eight to tenth centuries and its subsequent rise to a uniquely Korean cult of the Divine Assembly described in scripture.
Author | : Lewis R. Lancaster |
Publisher | : Jain Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 0895818892 |
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During the unified Silla dynasty period (669-935AD) that followed the Three Kingdom period, Buddhism was being assimilated into the Korean culture and taking on certain aspects not borrowed from China. Buddhist specialists will be interested in the ways in which the various schools were being adapted in this time period.
Author | : Huaijin Nan |
Publisher | : Red Wheel |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 9780877287766 |
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This non-sectarian approach to self-realization incorporates wisdom from the major schools of Chinese thought--Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, Zen and Tibetan.
Author | : Eva Wong |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992-11-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0834823780 |
Download Cultivating Stillness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Equanimity, good health, peace of mind, and long life are the goals of the ancient Taoist tradition known as "internal alchemy," of which Cultivating Stillness is a key text. Written between the second and fifth centuries, the book is attributed to T'ai Shang Lao-chun—the legendary figure more widely known as Lao-Tzu, author of the Tao-te Ching . The accompanying commentary, written in the nineteenth century by Shui-ch'ing Tzu, explains the alchemical symbolism of the text and the methods for cultivating internal stillness of body and mind. A principal part of the Taoist canon for many centuries, Cultivating Stillness is still the first book studied by Taoist initiates today.