Concepts and Practices: Kindness towards Animals in the Early History of Chinese Buddhism - Couverture souple

Pu, Chengzhong

 
9783848493012: Concepts and Practices: Kindness towards Animals in the Early History of Chinese Buddhism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3848493012 ISBN 13 : 9783848493012
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

With detailed explanations of some moral concepts and cultural elements that smoothened the integration of the Chinese and Indian religious cultures, this book investigates the early development of the two living traditions of Chinese Buddhism, i.e. vegetarianism and liberating animals, and the moral rules and beliefs that have been helping to keep the traditions alive since the 4th century. The two traditions can be concerned as religious cultural creations of the Chinese under the inspiration and stimulation of the Indian Buddhist culture; they are some facets of the outcome directly caused by the encounter of the two great civilisations in ancient time. Through this book the author introduces the reader to the early Chinese acceptance of Indian Buddhism and contributes a tiny jigsaw to the picture of the early history of Chinese Buddhism.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

With detailed explanations of some moral concepts and cultural elements that smoothened the integration of the Chinese and Indian religious cultures, this book investigates the early development of the two living traditions of Chinese Buddhism, i.e. vegetarianism and liberating animals, and the moral rules and beliefs that have been helping to keep the traditions alive since the 4th century. The two traditions can be concerned as religious cultural creations of the Chinese under the inspiration and stimulation of the Indian Buddhist culture; they are some facets of the outcome directly caused by the encounter of the two great civilisations in ancient time. Through this book the author introduces the reader to the early Chinese acceptance of Indian Buddhism and contributes a tiny jigsaw to the picture of the early history of Chinese Buddhism.

Biographie de l'auteur

is Assistant Professor & Academic Advisor of the Buddhist College of Singapore and specialized in the early history of Chinese Buddhism. After over a year in Sri Lanka studying Pali and Theravada Buddhism, he did an MA in Indian Religions and a PhD in Buddhist Studies in the SOAS, University of London, during 2000 and 2005.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3848493012
ISBN 13 
9783848493012
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
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