Readings of the Lotus Sutra - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231142889 ISBN 13 : 9780231142885

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Lotus Sutra proclaims that a unitary intent underlies the diversity of Buddhist teachings and promises that all people without exception can achieve supreme awakening. Establishing the definitive guide to this profound text, specialists in Buddhist philosophy, art, and history of religion address the major ideas and controversies surrounding the Lotus Sutra and its manifestations in ritual performance, ascetic practice, visual representations, and social action across history. Essays survey the Indian context in which the sutra was produced, its compilation and translation history, and its influence across China and Japan, among many other issues. The volume also includes a Chinese and Japanese character glossary, notes on Western translations of the text, and a synoptic bibliography.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jacqueline I. Stone (PhD, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA) is Professor of Japanese Religions at Princeton University. She is the author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Hawaii, 2001), which won the 2001 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, and Right Thoughts at the Last Moment-Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan (Hawaii, 2016), and she is the coeditor (with Brian J. Cuevas) of The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations (Hawaii, 2007) and (witrh Stephen F. Teiser) Readings of the Lotus Sutra (Columbia, 2009). She is a specialist in Japanese Buddhism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231142889
• ISBN 13: 9780231142885
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Éditeur: Teiser Stephen F., Stone Jacqueline I.
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