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The Awakening of the Hinterland: The Formation of Regional Vinaya Traditions in Tang China

Author : Anna Sokolova

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 19,56 MB

Release : 2024-01-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9004686231

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Book Description

This volume explores the dissemination of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618–907) in the context of the dispersal of the state bureaucracy throughout the empire and the changing centre–periphery dynamics. The tradition’s development in China during the Tang Dynasty has traditionally been associated with northern China, particularly the capital city of Chang’an, where Daoxuan (596–667), the de facto founder of the “vinaya school” in China, resided. This book explores the dissemination of Daoxuan’s followers and the subsequent growth of interrelated regional vinaya movements across the Tang regional landscape.



A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life

Author : Kai Sheng

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 606 pages

File Size : 14,74 MB

Release : 2020-06-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9004431772

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This book is a study of the formation and the practice of Buddhist canons and an attempt to present as fully as possible the panorama of Chinese Buddhist faith. The book uses textual and archaeological sources, including Dunhuang texts, and adopts multiple perspectives such as textual evidence, historical circumstances, social life, as well as the intellectual background at the time.



The Origins of Yoga and Tantra

Author : Geoffrey Samuel

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 429 pages

File Size : 46,62 MB

Release : 2008-03-27

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1139470213

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Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really know about this period, and asks what sense we can make of the evolution of yogic and tantric practices, which were to become such central and important features of the Indic religious scene. Its originality lies in seeking to understand these traditions in terms of the total social and religious context of South Asian society during this period, including the religious practices of the general population with their close engagement with family, gender, economic life and other pragmatic concerns.



Bright Star, Luminous Cloud

Author : Zhiying Fu

Publisher : Buddha's Light Publishing

Page : 507 pages

File Size : 22,94 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1932293299

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Published twelve years after Handing Down the Light, Fu Zhiying looks back at the impact of Venerable Master Hsing Yun on the development of Buddhism in Bright Star, Luminous Cloud. Filled with bright stories and warm reminiscences, Bright Star, Luminous Cloud forms the narrative of the development of Humanistic Buddhism through the life and times of this innovative figure.



Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism

Author : Jin Y. Park

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 395 pages

File Size : 15,57 MB

Release : 2012-02-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1438429231

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Book Description

An overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period.



Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights

Author : Carmen Meinert

Publisher : Transcript Publishing

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 43,99 MB

Release : 2010

Category : History

ISBN :

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The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and a Hindu minority in Sri Lanka raise the question of how the issues of human rights and Buddhism are related. The question applies both to the violation of basic rights in Buddhist countries and to the defence of those rights which are well-grounded in Buddhist teachings. The volume provides academic essays that reflect this up to now rather neglected issue from the point of view of the three main Buddhist traditions, Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. It provides multi-faceted and surprising insights into a rather unlikely relationship.



Across the Himalayan Gap

Author : Tan Chung

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

Page : 608 pages

File Size : 44,61 MB

Release : 1998-12

Category :

ISBN : 9788121206174

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An anthology of 40 Indian authors that parades various Indian perspectives on China, her civilization, history, society and development. It is a fruition of a project launched by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) where Sino-Indian studies is a special window. A scholarly work.



Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages

Author : Ester Bianchi

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 18,31 MB

Release : 2021-08-24

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9004468374

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Book Description

Sino-Tibetan Buddhism implies cross-cultural contacts and exchanges between China and Tibet. The ten case-studies collected in this book focus on the spread of Chinese Buddhism within a mainly Tibetan environment and the adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism among a Chinese-speaking audience throughout the ages.



Readings of the Platform Sutra

Author : Morten Schlütter

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 37,57 MB

Release : 2012-02-07

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0231500556

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The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of its kind in English, this volume offers essays that introduce the history and ideas of the sutra to a general audience and interpret its practices. Leading specialists on Buddhism discuss the text's historical background and its vaunted legacy in Chinese culture. Incorporating recent scholarship and theory, chapters include an overview of Chinese Buddhism, the crucial role of the Platform Sutra in the Chan tradition, and the dynamics of Huineng's biography. They probe the sutra's key philosophical arguments, its paradoxical teachings about transmission, and its position on ordination and other institutions. The book includes a character glossary and extensive bibliography, with helpful references for students, general readers, and specialists throughout. The editors and contributors are among the most respected scholars in the study of Buddhism, and they assess the place of the Platform Sutra in the broader context of Chinese thought, opening the text to all readers interested in Asian culture, literature, spirituality, and religion.



China In World History

Author : S. A. M. Adshead

Publisher : Springer

Page : 443 pages

File Size : 14,55 MB

Release : 2016-01-13

Category : History

ISBN : 134923785X

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A novel approach to Chinese history is adopted here, in that the theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and the various world institutions of which that order is composed. Each chapter discusses China's comparative place in the world, the avenues of contact between China and other civilizations, and who and what passed along these channels.