A Less Traveled Path: Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra, Chapter 2: Critically Edited With a Study on Its Sructure and Significance for the Development of Buddhist Meditation - Couverture souple

Stuart, Daniel M

 
9783700177630: A Less Traveled Path: Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra, Chapter 2: Critically Edited With a Study on Its Sructure and Significance for the Development of Buddhist Meditation
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ISBN 10 : 3700177631 ISBN 13 : 9783700177630
Editeur : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015

Synopsis

A Less Traveled Path brings to light unique textual evidence of an important transitional moment in Indian Buddhism. This book includes a critical edition and translation of the second chapter of a third- or fourth-century Buddhist Sanskrit text, the Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra, which sheds light on the so-called "Middle Period" of Indian Buddhism. In his introduction, Stuart argues that meditative practice, rhetoric, and philosophy were intimately tied to one another when the Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra was redacted, and that it serves as an important historical touchstone for understanding the development of Buddhist mind-centered metaphysics. This development is historically significant because it marks a major shift in Indian Buddhist religious practice, which conditioned the emergence of fully developed Mahayana path schemes and power-oriented tantric ritual traditions in the centuries that followed the text's compilation.

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Éditeur
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3700177631
ISBN 13 
9783700177630
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
642
Éditeur
Steinkellner Ernst
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