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Discerning Buddhas
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Author : Kevin Buckelew
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-11-19
Discerning Buddhas written by Kevin Buckelew and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-19 with Religion categories.
In Song-period China (960–1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan’s appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha? Discerning Buddhas argues that Chan Buddhists wove together tropes of sovereignty, hospitality, and martial heroism drawn from both Buddhist tradition and China’s cultural heritage to develop a distinctive vision of what it meant for a Chan master to be a buddha in Song-period China. Kevin Buckelew analyzes the ways Chan Buddhists deployed such tropes in ritual, literature, and visual culture in order to stage the comparison of Chan mastery with buddhahood. He examines how they used the concept of buddhahood to work through questions about the ideal Chan master’s authority, agency, and masculinity, in the process rendering buddhahood in terms highly legible to elite Chinese society. Chan Buddhists, Buckelew shows, developed their own “signature” of buddhahood, according to which enlightened Chan masters who truly deserved comparison to the Buddha were supposed to be distinguished from everyone else. By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society.
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real
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Author : Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Release Date : 1997
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real written by Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Lam rim Chen mo (roughly, "the great book on stages of the path to enlightenment") is the abbreviated title of a massive encyclopaedic manual written by Tson-kha-pa, the founder of the gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. 'Calming the mind and Discerning the Real' marks the first appearance in English of the two most important segments of this work.
Discerning The Buddha
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Author : Lal Mani Joshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Discerning The Buddha written by Lal Mani Joshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Buddhism categories.
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real
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Author : Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real written by Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Religion categories.
The Selfless Mind
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Author : Peter Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
The Selfless Mind written by Peter Harvey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Social Science categories.
This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives period, and the 'undetermined questions' on the world, on the 'life principle' and on the liberated one after death. It examines the 'person' as a flowing continuity centred on consciousness or discernment (vinnana) configured in changing minds-sets (cittas). The resting state of this is seen as 'brightly shining' - like the 'Buddha nature' of Mahayana thought - so as to represent the potential for Nirvana. Nirvana is then shown to be a state in which consciousness transcends all objects, and thus participates in a timeless, unconditioned realm.
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real
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Author : Blo bzang grags pa'i dpal (Tsong kha pa)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real written by Blo bzang grags pa'i dpal (Tsong kha pa) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Stages Of The Buddha S Teachings
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Author : Dolpa
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-12-29
Stages Of The Buddha S Teachings written by Dolpa and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-29 with Religion categories.
Stages of the Buddha's Teachings is an extraordinary and systematized representation of the complete path to enlightenment. From the acclaimed Library of Tibetan Classics. The “stages of the teachings” or tenrim genre of Tibetan spiritual writing expounds the Mahayana teachings as a graded series of topics, from the practices required at the start of the bodhisattva’s career to the final perfect awakening of buddhahood. The three texts in the present volume all exerted seminal influence in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The first text, The Blue Compendium, presents the instructions of the Kadam teacher Potowa (1031–1106) as recorded by his student Dölpa (1059–1131). This text is followed by Gampopa’s (1079–1153) revered Ornament of Precious Liberation, which remains the most authoritative text on the path to enlightenment within the Kagyü school. The final text is Clarifying the Sage’s Intent, a masterwork by the preeiment sage of the Sakya tradition, Sakya Pandita (1182–1251).
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real
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Author : Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Calming The Mind And Discerning The Real written by Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Lam-rim categories.
Behold The Buddha
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Author : James C. Dobbins
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Behold The Buddha written by James C. Dobbins and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Religion categories.
Images of the Buddha are everywhere—not just in temples but also in museums and homes and online—but what these images mean largely depends on the background and circumstance of those viewing them. In Behold the Buddha, James Dobbins invites readers to imagine how premodern Japanese Buddhists understood and experienced icons in temple settings long before the advent of museums and the internet. Although widely portrayed in the last century as visual emblems of great religious truths or as exquisite works of Asian art, Buddhist images were traditionally treated as the very embodiment of the Buddha, his palpable presence among people. Hence, Buddhists approached them as living entities in their own right—that is, as awakened icons with whom they could interact religiously. Dobbins begins by reflecting on art museums, where many non-Buddhists first encounter images of the Buddha, before outlining the complex Western response to them in previous centuries. He next elucidates images as visual representations of the story of the Buddha’s life followed by an overview of the physical attributes and symbolic gestures found in Buddhist iconography. A variety of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other divinities commonly depicted in Japanese Buddhism is introduced, and their “living” quality discussed in the context of traditional temples and Buddhist rituals. Finally, other religious objects in Japanese Buddhism—relics, scriptures, inscriptions, portraits of masters, and sacred sites—are explained using the Buddhist icon as a model. Dobbins concludes by contemplating art museums further as potential sites for discerning the religious character of Buddhist images. Those interested in Buddhism generally who would like to learn more about its rich iconography—whether encountered in temples or museums—will find much in this concise, well-illustrated volume to help them “behold the Buddha.”