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The Flower of Chinese Buddhism

Author : Daisaku Ikeda
Publisher : Middleway Press
ISBN 13 : 1938252195
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Flower of Chinese Buddhism written by Daisaku Ikeda and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the introduction of the religion into China, this chronicle depicts the evolution of Buddhism. The career and achievements of the great Kumarajiva are investigated, exploring the famed philosophical treatises that form the core of East Asian Buddhist literature. Providing a useful and accessible introduction to the influential Tien-t'ai school of Buddhism in Japan as well as the teachings of the 13th-century monk Nichiren, this examination places special emphasis on the faith of the Lotus Sutra and the major works of masters such as Hui-su, Chih-i, and Chanjan. From the early translations of the Buddhist scriptures to the persecution of the T'ang dynasty, this exploration illuminates the role of Buddhism in Chinese society, and by extension, in humanity in general.

The Flower Ornament Scripture

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824094
Total Pages : 2759 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Flower Ornament Scripture written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1993-10-12 with total page 2759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful translation of one of the most influential Buddhist sutras—the Avatamsaka Sutra—by one of the greatest translators of Buddhist texts of our time Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. This one-volume edition contains Thomas Cleary’s definitive translation of all thirty-nine books of the sutra, along with an introduction, a glossary, and Cleary’s translation of Li Tongxuan’s seventh-century guide to the final book, the Gandavyuha, “Entry into the Realm of Reality.”

Chinese Buddhism

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849622045
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Buddhism written by Joseph Edkins and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids Edkins' account of Chinese Buddhism is one of the most extensive ever written. In far more than 20 chapters he covers everything there is to know about about Chinese Buddhism. Contents: 1. Joshu's Dog 2. Hyakujo's Fox 3. Gutei's Finger 4. A Beardless Foreigner 5. Kyogen Mounts The Tree 6. Buddha Twirls A Flower 7. Joshu Washes The Bowl 8. Keichu's Wheel 9. A Buddha Before History 10. Seizei Alone And Poor 11. Joshu Examines A Monk In Meditation 12. Zuigan Calls His Own Master 13. Tokusan Holds His Bowl 14. Nansen Cuts The Cat In Two 15. Tozan's Three Blows 16. Bells And Robes 17. The Three Calls Of The Emperor's Teacher 18. Tozan's Three Pounds 19. Everyday Life Is The Path 20. The Enlightened Man 21. Dried Dung 22. Kashapa's Preaching Sign 23. Do Not Think Good, Do Not Think Not-Good 24. Without Words, Without Silence 25. Preaching From The Third Seat 26. Two Monks Roll Up The Screen 27. It Is Not Mind, It Is Not Buddha, It Is Not Things 28. Blow Out The Candle 29. Not The Wind, Not The Flag 30. This Mind Is Buddha 31. Joshu Investigates 32. A Philosopher Asks Buddha 33. This Mind Is Not Buddha 34. Learning Is Not The Path 35. Two Souls 36. Meeting A Zen Master On The Road 37. A Buffalo Passes Through The Enclosure 38. An Oak Tree In The Garden 39. Ummon's Sidetrack 40. Tipping Over A Water Vase 41. Bodhidharma Pacifies The Mind 42. The Girl Comes Out From Meditation 43. Shuzan's Short Staff 44. Basho's Staff 45. Who Is He? 46. Proceed From The Top Of The Pole 47. Three Gates Of Tosotsu 48. One Road Of Kembo 49. Amban's Addition

Burning for the Buddha

Author : James A. Benn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824829921
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Burning for the Buddha written by James A. Benn and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.

Hua-Yen Buddhism

Author : Francis H. Cook
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038047
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Hua-Yen Buddhism written by Francis H. Cook and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hua-yen is regarded as the highest form of Buddhism by most modern Japanese and Chinese scholars. This book is a description and analysis of the Chinese form of Buddhism called Hua-yen (or Hwa-yea), Flower Ornament, based largely on one of the more systematic treatises of its third patriarch. Hua-yen Buddhism strongly resembles Whitehead's process philosophy, and has strong implications for modern philosophy and religion. Hua-yen Buddhism explores the philosophical system of Hua-yen in greater detail than does Garma C.C. Chang's The Buddhist Teaching of Totality (Penn State, 1971). An additional value is the development of the questions of ethics and history. Thus, Professor Cook presents a valuable sequel to Professor Chang's pioneering work. The Flower Ornament School was developed in China in the late 7th and early 8th centuries as an innovative interpretation of Indian Buddhist doctrines in the light of indigenous Chinese presuppositions, chiefly Taoist. Hua-yen is a cosmic ecology, which views all existence as an organic unity, so it has an obvious appeal to the modern individual, both students and layman.

In Defense of Plants

Author : Matt Candeias
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642504548
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Plants written by Matt Candeias and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.

Shaping the Lotus Sutra

Author : Eugene Yuejin Wang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295984629
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Lotus Sutra written by Eugene Yuejin Wang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments depict celestial journeys, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. Yet the cosmos revealed in these tableaux is strikingly different from that found in the text of the sutra. Shaping the Lotus Sutra explores this visual world. Challenging long-held assumptions about Buddhist art, Eugene Wang treats it as a window to an animated and spirited world. Rather than focus on individual murals as isolated compositions, Wang views the entire body of pictures adorning a cave shrine or a pagoda as a visual mapping of an imaginary topography that encompasses different temporal and spatial domains. He demonstrates that the text of the Lotus Sutra does not fully explain the pictures and that a picture, or a series of them, constitutes its own "text." In exploring how religious pictures sublimate cultural aspirations, he shows that they can serve both political and religious agendas and that different social forces can co-exist within the same visual program. These pictures inspired meditative journeys through sophisticated formal devices such as mirroring, mapping, and spatial programming - analytical categories newly identified by Wang. The book examines murals in cave shrines at Binglingsi and Dunhuang in northwestern China and relief sculptures in the grottoes of Yungang in Shanxi, on stelae from Sichuan, and on the Dragon-and-Tiger pagoda in Shandong, among other sites. By tracing formal impulses in medieval Chinese picture-making, such as topographic mapping and pictorial illusionism, the author pieces together a wide range of visual evidence and textual sources to reconstruct the medieval Chinese cognitive style and mental world. The book is ultimately a history of the Chinese imagination. Read an interview with the author: http: //dgeneratefilms.com/cinematalk/cinematalk-interview-with-professor-eugene-wang-on-chinese-art-and-film/

The Secret of the Golden Flower

Author : Richard Wilhelm
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156799805
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Golden Flower written by Richard Wilhelm and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1962 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient Taoist text rediscovered by Richard Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality.

Hand-book for the Student of Chinese Buddhism

Author : Ernest John Eitel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hand-book for the Student of Chinese Buddhism written by Ernest John Eitel and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Buddhism

Author : Chün-fang Yü
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824883489
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Buddhism written by Chün-fang Yü and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this book, the first introduction to Chinese Buddhism written expressly for students and those interested in an accessible yet authoritative overview of the subject based on current scholarship. After presenting the basic tenets of the Buddha’s teachings and the Chinese religious traditions, the book focuses on topics essential for understanding Chinese Buddhism: major scriptures, worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, rituals and festivals, the monastic order, Buddhist schools such as Tiantai and Chan, Buddhism and gender, and current trends—notably humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan and the resurgence of Buddhism in post-Mao China. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. A convenient glossary of common terms, titles, and names is included.

Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China

Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003881
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China written by Paul Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death rituals and Buddhist imagery of the afterlife have been central to the development and spread of Buddhism as a social and textual tradition. Bringing together ethnographic, historical and theoretically informed accounts, the book presents in-depth studies of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and China.

Outline of Flower Adorement Sutra-3

Author : Chin Liang Shi
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781453628300
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Outline of Flower Adorement Sutra-3 written by Chin Liang Shi and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 3 of the outline of 80 volumn of Flower Adornment Sutra,also call Hua Yen Sutra

Outline of Flower Adornment Sutra-2

Author : Chin Liang Shi
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781453628256
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Outline of Flower Adornment Sutra-2 written by Chin Liang Shi and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The part 2 of outline of Flower Adornment Sutra , the 80 Hua Yen Sutra .

Buddhism in Chinese Society

Author : Jacques Gernet
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231114110
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism in Chinese Society written by Jacques Gernet and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated and revised by respected scholar of Chinese religions Franciscus Verellen, who has worked closely with Gernet, this edition includes new references, an extensive, up-to-date bibliography, and a comprehensive index.

The Secret of the Golden Flower

Author : Richard Wilhelm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780151799800
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Golden Flower written by Richard Wilhelm and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Taoist text that forms the central part of this book was discovered by Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality.

The Secret Of The Golden Flower

Author : Wilhelm, Richard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136303510
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Of The Golden Flower written by Wilhelm, Richard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This ancient Chinese manual of spiritual alchemy was brought to the West in translation by missionary and theologian Richard Wilhelm who is assisted in this book by Carl Jung. Averse to the blind aping of oriental ways, Jung suggests that Eastern treasures are best used to enrich our understanding of the work we have to do on ourselves and our culture.

Chinese Art

Author : Patricia Bjaaland Welch
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906893
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Art written by Patricia Bjaaland Welch and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.