Indian Buddhist Literature And Chinese Moral Books
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Indian Buddhist Literature And Chinese Moral Books
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Author : Der-huey Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Indian Buddhist Literature And Chinese Moral Books written by Der-huey Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Buddhist literature categories.
Head Eyes Flesh And Blood
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Author : Reiko Ohnuma
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
Head Eyes Flesh And Blood written by Reiko Ohnuma 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 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature written between the third century BCE and the late medieval period, Reiko Ohnuma argues that this theme has had a major impact on the development of Buddhist philosophy and culture. Whether he takes the form of king, prince, ascetic, elephant, hare, serpent, or god, the bodhisattva repeatedly gives his body or parts of his flesh to others. He leaps into fires, drowns himself in the ocean, rips out his tusks, gouges out his eyes, and lets mosquitoes drink from his blood, always out of selflessness and compassion and to achieve the highest state of Buddhahood. Ohnuma places these stories into a discrete subgenre of South Asian Buddhist literature and approaches them like case studies, analyzing their plots, characterizations, and rhetoric. She then relates the theme of the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice to major conceptual discourses in the history of Buddhism and South Asian religions, such as the categories of the gift, the body (both ordinary and extraordinary), kingship, sacrifice, ritual offering, and death. Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood reveals a very sophisticated and influential perception of the body in South Asian Buddhist literature and highlights the way in which these stories have provided an important cultural resource for Buddhists. Combined with her rich and careful translations of classic texts, Ohnuma introduces a whole new understanding of a vital concept in Buddhists studies.
Chinese Transformation Of Buddhism
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Author : Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-08
Chinese Transformation Of Buddhism written by Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-08 with Religion categories.
When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view. Consequently, Buddhism in China has usually been discussed in terms of the Indianization of Chinese life and thought, but Kenneth Ch'en shows that as Indian ideas were gaining ground the Chinese were choosing among them and modifying them to fit their situation. To demonstrate how the Chinese transformed Buddhism the author investigates its role in the ethical, political, literary, educational, and social life of the Chinese. Buddhism was able to gain a wide following by accommodating itself to Chinese ethical practices. The Buddhist monastic community submitted to the jurisdiction of the state and the monasteries also became integrated into the economic life of the empire through their ownership of land and their operation of industrial and commercial enterprises. Through an analysis of the work of a representative Chinese poet the author reveals the ways in which Buddhism came to be reflected in the literary life of China. Finally, he explores the methods used by the Buddhists to popularize their religion. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Buddhist Literature As Philosophy Buddhist Philosophy As Literature
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Author : Rafal K. Stepien
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2020-11-01
Buddhist Literature As Philosophy Buddhist Philosophy As Literature written by Rafal K. Stepien and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-01 with Religion categories.
Can literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been grappling with these questions for centuries, and this book attempts to answer them by exploring the relationship between literature and philosophy across the classical and contemporary Buddhist worlds of India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, and North America. Written by leading scholars, the book examines literary texts composed over two millennia, ranging in form from lyric verse, narrative poetry, panegyric, hymn, and koan, to novel, hagiography, (secret) autobiography, autofiction, treatise, and sutra, all in sustained conversation with topics in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophies of mind, language, literature, and religion. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, this book deliberately works across and against the boundaries separating three mainstays of humanistic pursuit—literature, philosophy, and religion—by focusing on the multiple relationships at play between content and form in works drawn from a truly diverse range of philosophical schools, literary genres, religious cultures, and historical eras. Overall, the book calls into question the very ways in which we do philosophy, study literature, and think about religious texts. It shows that Buddhist thought provides sophisticated responses to some of the perennial problems regarding how we find, create, and apply meaning—on the page, in the mind, and throughout our lives.
India In The Chinese Imagination
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Author : John Kieschnick
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-01-23
India In The Chinese Imagination written by John Kieschnick and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with History categories.
In this collection of original essays, leading Asian studies scholars take a new look at the way the Chinese conceived of India in their literature, art, and religious thought in the premodern era.
The Indian N Ti Astras In Tibet
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Author : Suniti Kumar Pathak
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Release Date : 1974
The Indian N Ti Astras In Tibet written by Suniti Kumar Pathak 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 1974 with Buddhist literature, Tibetan categories.
On Sanskrit didactic literature and the Tibetan translations; a study.
Ethical Treatment Of Animals In Early Chinese Buddhism
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Author : Chuan Cheng
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-17
Ethical Treatment Of Animals In Early Chinese Buddhism written by Chuan Cheng and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-17 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Through detailed discussions of several Buddhist and Chinese moral concepts and beliefs and accompanied by some edifying short stories, this book investigates three types of ethical treatment of animals in early Chinese Buddhism: the imperial bans on animal sacrifice; the early development of the two unique and living traditions of vegetarianism; and the freeing of animals. The book presents a demonstration of the early Chinese acceptance of Indian Buddhism, providing the reader with a better understanding of the early history of Chinese Buddhism in general, and of the integration of Chinese and Indian Buddhist cultures in particular.
The Chinese Transformation Of Buddhism
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Author : Kenneth Kuan Shêng Chʻen
language : en
Publisher: Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1973
The Chinese Transformation Of Buddhism written by Kenneth Kuan Shêng Chʻen and has been published by Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Religion categories.
When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view. Consequently, Buddhism in China has usually been discussed in terms of the Indianization of Chinese life and thought, but Kenneth Ch'en shows that as Indian ideas were gaining ground the Chinese were choosing among them and modifying them to fit their situation. To demonstrate how the Chinese transformed Buddhism the author investigates its role in the ethical, political, literary, educational, and social life of the Chinese. Buddhism was able to gain a wide following by accommodating itself to Chinese ethical practices. The Buddhist monastic community submitted to the jurisdiction of the state and the monasteries also became integrated into the economic life of the empire through their ownership of land and their operation of industrial and commercial enterprises. Through an analysis of the work of a representative Chinese poet the author reveals the ways in which Buddhism came to be reflected in the literary life of China. Finally, he explores the methods used by the Buddhists to popularize their religion. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Ethics Of Buddhism
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Author : Shundo Tachibana
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1992
The Ethics Of Buddhism written by Shundo Tachibana and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Buddhism categories.
This is a facsimile reissue of the 1926 classic edition, outlining the characteristics of Buddhist morality.
Buddhism And Buddhists In China
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Author : Lewis Hodus
language : en
Publisher: Nuvision Publications
Release Date : 2006-11-01
Buddhism And Buddhists In China written by Lewis Hodus and has been published by Nuvision Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles. Its original form, as preached by Gautama in India and developed in the early years succeeding, and as embodied in the sacred literature of early Buddhism, is not representative of the actual Buddhism of any land today. The faithful student of Buddhist literature would be as far removed from understanding the working activities of a busy center of Buddhism in Burmah, Tibet or China today as a student of patristic literature would be from appreciating the Christian life of London or New York City. This volume is the third to be published of a series on "The World's Living Religions," projected in 1920 by the Board of Missionary Preparation of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America. The series seeks to introduce Western readers to the real religious life of each great national area of the non-Christian world.