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Empty vision : metaphor and visionary imagery in Mahayana Buddhism
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ISBN: 1138862606 1315028972 1136857265 1136857192 9781136857263 9781315028972 9781136857331 9780700714896 9781138862609 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) and other Mahayana literature, immediate access to reality is symbolized by vision and set in opposition to language and conceptual thinking, which are construed as obscuring reality. In addition to its philosophical manifestations, the tension between vision and language also functioned as a strategy of legitimation in the struggle of the early heterodox Mahayana movement for authority and legitimacy. T


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The Awakening of Faith and New Confucian Philosophy
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ISBN: 9789004471238 9004471235 9789004471245 9004471243 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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This innovative volume demonstrates how and to what ends the writings of Xiong Shili, Ma Yifu, Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan adopted and repurposed conceptual models derived from the Buddhist text Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith. It shows which of the philosophical positions defended by these New Confucian philosophers were developed and sustained through engagement with the critical challenges advanced by scholars who attacked the Treatise. It also examines the extent to which twentieth-century New Confucians were aware of their intellectual debt to the Treatise and explains how they reconciled this awareness with their Confucian identity.

Mahayana Buddhism : the doctrinal foundations.
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ISBN: 0415025370 0415025362 9780415025362 Year: 1991 Publisher: London : Routledge,

Popular Buddhist texts from Nepal : narratives and rituals of Newar Buddhism
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ISBN: 058542778X 9780585427782 0791446115 9780791446119 0791446123 9780791446126 Year: 2000 Publisher: Albany, New York State : State University of New York Press,

Dance of colours: basic patterns of colour symbolism in Mahāyāna buddhism
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ISBN: 9187484080 9789187484087 Year: 1994 Volume: 41 Publisher: Göteborg: Göteborgs etnografiska museum,


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Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra : Edition alttürkischer Übersetzungen nach Handschriftfragmenten von Berlin und Kyoto : ein Vimalakīrti-Bildfragment aus Turfan
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ISBN: 2503509576 9782503509570 Year: 2000 Volume: 20 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,


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The Buddhist teaching of totality : the philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism
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ISBN: 0042940761 9780042940762 Year: 1971 Publisher: London: Allen and Unwin,


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Battling the Buddha of Love : A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built
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ISBN: 1501723499 1501723472 9781501723476 9781501723490 9781501723469 1501723464 9781501723469 9781501723483 1501723480 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Battling the Buddha of Love is a work of advocacy anthropology that explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as it sought to build the "world's tallest statue" as a multi-million-dollar "gift" to India. Hoping to forcibly acquire 750 acres of occupied land for the statue park in the Kushinagar area of Uttar Pradesh, the Buddhist statue planners ran into obstacle after obstacle, including a full-scale grassroots resistance movement of Indian farmers working to "Save the Land."Falcone sheds light on the aspirations, values, and practices of both the Buddhists who worked to construct the statue, as well as the Indian farmer-activists who tirelessly protested against the Maitreya Project. Because the majority of the supporters of the Maitreya Project statue are converts to Tibetan Buddhism, individuals Falcone terms "non-heritage" practitioners, she focuses on the spectacular collision of cultural values between small agriculturalists in rural India and transnational Buddhists hailing from Portland to Pretoria. She asks how could a transnational Buddhist organization committed to compassionate practice blithely create so much suffering for impoverished rural Indians.Falcone depicts the cultural logics at work on both sides of the controversy, and through her examination of these logics she reveals the divergent, competing visions of Kushinagar's potential futures. Battling the Buddha of Love traces power, faith, and hope through the axes of globalization, transnational religion, and rural grassroots activism in South Asia, showing the unintended local consequences of an international spiritual development project.

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