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Buddhism in practice / Donald S. Lopez, Jr., editor.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Description
xvi, 608 pages ; 24 cm.
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BQ1012 .B83 1995
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Buddhist literature
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Princeton readings in religions
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Summary note
This anthology illustrates the vast scope of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present, by presenting a selection of forty-eight translated texts including hagiographies, monastic rules, pilgrimage songs, apocryphal sutras, and didactic tales from India, China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Burma. Most of these pieces have never before been translated into a Western language, and each is preceded by a substantial introduction by its translator.
Together they are designed to do nothing less than reshape the way in which Buddhism is understood.
These unusual sources provide the reader with a sense of the remarkable diversity of the practices of persons who over the course of 2,500 years have been identified, by themselves or by others, as Buddhists. In this rich variety there are often contradictions, such that the practices of one Buddhist community might seem strange or unfamiliar to another.
At the same time, however, there is evidence here of many continuities among the practices of Buddhist cultures widely separated by both history and topography.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A hymn of praise to the Buddha's good qualities / Paul J. Griffiths
Consecrating the Buddha / Donald K. Swearer
Sūtra on the merit of bathing the Buddha / Daniel Boucher
Reading others' minds / Carl Bielefeldt
The prayer of the original Buddha / Matthew Kapstein
Myōe's letter to the island / George J. Tanabe, Jr.
The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra / William H. Grosnick
The whole universe as a Sūtra / Luis O. Gómez
Gotamī's story / Jonathan S. Walters
The Great Bliss Queen / Anne C. Klein
Story of Siṃhala, the caravan leader / Todd T. Lewis
A prayer for the long life of the Dalai Lama / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Chinese women pilgrims' songs glorifying Guanyin / Chün-fang Yü
A Mahāyāna liturgy / Luis O. Gómez
A discussion of seated Zen / Carl Bielefeldt
The way to meditation / Donald K. Swearer
Buddhism and the state in early Japan / William E. Deal
Original enlightenment thought in the Nichiren tradition / Jackie Stone
The Matsumoto debate / George J. Tanabe, Jr.
A prophecy of the death of the Dharma / Jan Nattier
The book of resolving doubts concerning the semblance Dharma / Kyoko Tokuno
A heretical Chinese Buddhist text / Jamie Hubbard
Eschatology in the Wheel of Time Tantra / John Newman
Atiśa's A lamp for the path to awakening / Ronald M. Davidson
The advice to layman Tuṇḍila / Charles Hallisey
The legend of the iron Stūpa / Charles Orzech
Two tantric meditations : visualizing the deity / Luis O. Gómez
The story of the horn blowing / Todd T. Lewis
A summary of the seven books of the Abhidhamma / Donald K. Swearer
On becoming a Buddhist wizard / Patrick Pranke
Pure land Buddhist worship and meditation in China / Daniel B. Stevenson
Āryadeva and Candrakīrti on self and selfishness / Karen Lang
A modern sermon on merit making / Donald K. Swearer
Sāramati's Entering into the great vehicle / Ronald M. Davidson
Auspicious things / Charles Hallisey
Tales of the lotus Sūtra / Daniel B. Stevenson
Daily life in the assembly / T. Griffith Foulk
Deaths, funerals, and the division of property in a monastic code / Gregory Schopen
A rite for restoring the Bodhisattva and tantric vows / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Awakening stories of Zen Buddhist women / Sallie King
The Chinese life of Nāgārjuna / Roger Corless
Atiśa's journey to Sumatra / Hubert Decleer
Bimbā's lament / Donald K. Swearer
Hagiographies of the Korean monk Wŏnhyo / Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
The illustrated biography of Ippen / Dennis Hirota
Account of the Buddhist Thaumaturge Baozhi / Alan J. Berkowitz
Buddhist chaplains in the field of battle / Sybil Thornton
Death-bed testimonials of the pure land faithful / Daniel B. Stevenson.
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ISBN
0691044422 ((acid-free paper))
9780691044422 ((acid-free paper))
0691044414 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
9780691044415 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
94048201
OCLC
31783263
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