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Introduction aux pratiques de la non-dualité : commentaire du Soutrâ de la Liberté inconcevable
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ISBN: 2213616809 9782213616803 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : Fayard,

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Le soutrâ de la liberté inconcevable enseigné par Vimalakîrti exprime la vue la plus élevée du bouddhisme du Grand Véhicule (Mahayana). Le commentaire ici traduit est en fait une compilation de deux groupes de textes : d'une part les remarques que fit Kumârajîva pendant qu'il traduisait le soutrâ et d'autre part un commentaire suivi de Daosheng.

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ISBN: 9786612357589 0520931408 1282357581 1598755412 9780520931404 1417595876 9781417595877 9781598755411 9780520242760 0520242769 9781282357587 6612357584 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angels University of California Press

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This beautifully written work sheds new light on the origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism with close readings of four well-known texts-the Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Tathagatagarbha Sutra, and Vimalakirtinirdesa. Treating these sutras as literary works rather than as straightforward philosophic or doctrinal treatises, Alan Cole argues that these writings were carefully sculpted to undermine traditional monastic Buddhism and to gain legitimacy and authority for Mahayana Buddhism as it was veering away from Buddhism's older oral and institutional forms. His sophisticated and sustained analysis of the narrative structures and seductive literary strategies used in these sutras suggests that they were specifically written to encourage devotion to the written word instead of other forms of authority, be they human, institutional, or iconic.

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