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The Buddhist teaching of totality : the philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism
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ISBN: 0042940761 9780042940762 Year: 1972 Publisher: London : Allen and Unwin,


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The Huayan University network : the teaching and practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in twentieth-century China
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ISBN: 9780231194303 0231194307 9780231550758 0231550758 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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In the early twentieth century, Chinese Buddhists sought to strengthen their tradition through publications, institution building, and initiatives aimed at raising the educational level of the monastic community. In The Huayan University Network, Erik J. Hammerstrom examines how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced during this time of profound political and social change and, in so doing, recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism.Hammerstrom traces the influence of Huayan University, the first Buddhist monastic school founded after the fall of the imperial system in China. Although the university lasted only a few years, its graduates of went on to establish a number of Huayan-centered educational programs throughout China. While they did not create a new sectarian Huayan movement, they did form a network unified by a common educational heritage that persists to the present day. Drawing on an extensive range of Buddhist texts and periodicals, Hammerstrom shows that Huayan had a significant impact on Chinese Buddhist thought and practice and that the history of Huayan complicates narratives of twentieth-century Buddhist modernization and revival. Offering a wide range of insights into the teaching and practice of Huayan in Republican China, this book sheds new light on an essential but often overlooked element of the East Asian Buddhist tradition.

Domesticating the dharma : Buddhist cults and the Hwaŏm synthesis in Silla Korea.
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ISBN: 9780824830878 0824830873 Year: 2008 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press

Un moine de la secte Kegon à l'epoque de Kamakura, Myo (1173-1232) et le "Journal de ses rêves".
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ISBN: 285539760X 9782855397603 Year: 1990 Volume: 160 Publisher: Paris Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient

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Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen
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ISBN: 0824808355 9780824808358 Year: 1983 Volume: 1 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press


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Chan Insights and Oversights : An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition
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ISBN: 0691218102 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Baltimore, Md. : Princeton Univ. Press, Project MUSE,

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For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, he challenges this inversion of traditional "Orientalist" discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought. Questioning the assumptions of "Easterners" as well, including those of the charismatic D. T. Suzuki, Faure demonstrates how both West and East have come to overlook significant components of a complex and elusive tradition. Throughout the book Faure reveals surprising hidden agendas in the modern enterprise of Chan studies and in Chan itself. After describing how Jesuit missionaries brought Chan to the West, he shows how the prejudices they engendered were influenced by the sectarian constraints of Sino-Japanese discourse. He then assesses structural, hermeneutical, and performative ways of looking at Chan, analyzes the relationship of Chan and local religion, and discusses Chan concepts of temporality, language, writing, and the self. Read alone or with its companion volume, The Rhetoric of Immediacy, this work offers a critical introduction not only to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism but also to "theory" in the human sciences.


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The social dimension of Shin Buddhism
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ISSN: 15709434 ISBN: 9789004186538 9004186530 9004193790 1283856352 9789004193796 Year: 2010 Volume: 129 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands Boston Brill

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Shin Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū), although weakened in many ways by secularization, continues to be a stable presence in Japanese society, as is emblematically shown by the very symmetrical position of the Nishi (Honganji-ha) and the Higashi Honganji (Ōtani-ha) head temples in the center of Kyōto, and by the recent projects for their renovation. This book addresses the need for more academic research on Shin Buddhism, and is specifically directed at describing and analyzing distinctive social aspects of this religious tradition in historical and contemporary perspective. The contributions collected here cover a wide range of issues, including the intersection between Shin Buddhism and fields as diverse as politics, education, social movements, economy, culture and the media, social ethics, gender, and globalization.


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Nāgārjuna's treatise on the ten Bodhisattva grounds : the Daśabhūmika vibhāṣā
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ISBN: 9781935413165 9781935413172 9781935413189 1935413163 193541318X 1935413171 Year: 2019 Volume: 13a, 13b Publisher: Seattle, Washington Kalavinka Press

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""Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the Ten Bodhisattva Grounds" is Bhikshu Dharmamitra's extensively annotated original translation of Ārya Nāgārjuna's "Daśabhūmika Vibhasa" rendered from Tripiṭaka Master Kumārajīva's circa 410 ce Sanskrit-to-Chinese translation. It consists of 35 chapters that explain in great detail the cultivation of the ten highest levels of bodhisattva practice leading to buddhahood, focusing almost exclusively on the first two of the ten bodhisattva grounds. This is a work which has never been translated into English before"--

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