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Pure Land Buddhism --- Pure Land Buddhism

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"Le Commentaire de Tanluan est la toute première monographie proprement chinoise à aborder le courant de la Terre Pure (Jingtu), cette tradition caractéristique du bouddhisme du Grand Véhicule consacrée au champ de buddha Sukhavatï (« La Bienheureuse ») et aux différents moyens de la contempler ou d'aller y naître. L'originalité de Tanluan est de se situer à une époque charnière où sont déjà traduites les oeuvres majeures du canon bouddhique, mais avant la systématisation des doctrines en différentes écoles, lui-même ne se réclamant d'aucune lignée magistrale. Cette indépendance lui permet de développer une interprétation de la Terre Pure radicalement subitiste, avant même les fameux développements du Chan (Zen), puisque Tanluan affirme que quiconque peut obtenir le nirvana sans trancher les passions, y compris les pires criminels. L'originalité de Tanluan tient aussi à son aptitude à développer une argumentation conforme à l'exégèse bouddhique traditionnelle tout en captant l'attention du lecteur chinois par de multiples allusions à sa culture autochtone, y compris les Classiques. Après sa mort cependant, Tanluan tomba rapidement dans l'oubli, peut-être parce que sa réputation de médecin taoïste l'avait emporté sur celle de maître bouddhiste. Mais son Commentaire sera redécouvert sept siècles plus tard au Japon, où il jouit depuis d'une faveur extraordinaire dans les milieux concernés." Source : 4ème page de couverture

Pure Land Buddhism --- Doctrines

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This diverse anthology of original Buddhist texts in translation provides a historical and conceptual framework that will transform contemporary scholarship on Pure Land Buddhism and instigate its recognition as an essential field of Buddhist studies. Traditional and contemporary primary sources carefully selected from Buddhist cultures across historical, geopolitical, and literary boundaries are organized by genre rather than chronologically, geographically, or by religious lineage—a novel juxtaposition that reveals their wider importance in fresh contexts. Together these fundamental texts from different Asian traditions, expertly translated by eminent and up-and-coming scholars, illustrate that the Buddhism of pure lands is not just an East Asian cult or a marginal type of Buddhism, but a pan-Asian and deeply entrenched religious phenomenon.The volume is organized into six parts: Ritual Practices, Contemplative Visualizations, Doctrinal Expositions, Life Writing and Poetry, Ethical and Aesthetic Explications, and Worlds beyond Sukhāvatī. Each part is introduced and summarized, and each translated piece is prefaced by its translator to supply historical and sectarian context as well as insight into the significance of the work. Common and less-common issues of practice, doctrine, and intra-religious transfer are explored, and deeper understandings of the meaning of “pure lands” are gained through the study of the celestial, cosmological, internal, and earthly pure lands associated with various buddhas, bodhisattvas, and devotional figures. The introduction by the volume editors ties the diverse themes of the book together and provides a historical background to Pure Land Buddhist studies. Scholars of Buddhism and Asian religion, including graduate and post-graduate students, as well as Buddhist practitioners, will appreciate the range of translated materials and accompanied discussions made accessible in one essential collection, the first of its kind to center on the formerly-neglected topic of Buddhist pure lands.

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