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Book Catalogues of the Harvard Yenching Library

Download or read book Catalogues of the Harvard Yenching Library written by Harvard-Yenching Library and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism

Download or read book Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism written by Jørn Borup and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen Buddhist ideas and practices in many ways are unique within the study of religion, and artists, poets and Buddhists practitioners worldwide have found inspiration from this tradition. Until recent years, representations of Zen Buddhism have focussed almost entirely on philosophical, historical or “spiritual” aspects. This book investigates the contemporary living reality of the largest Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist group, Myōshinji. Drawing on textual studies and ethnographic fieldwork, Jørn Borup analyses how its practitioners use and understand their religion, how they practice their religiosity and how different kinds of Zen Buddhists (monks, nuns, priest, lay people) interact and define themselves within the religious organization. Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism portrays a living Zen Buddhism being both uniquely interesting and interestingly typical for common Buddhist and Japanese religiosity.

Book The Buddhists

    Book Details:
  • Author : Subodh Kapoor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9788177550689
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Buddhists written by Subodh Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultivating Perfection

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  • Author : Louis Komjathy
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2007-09-30
  • ISBN : 9047421736
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Cultivating Perfection written by Louis Komjathy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of self, specific training regimens, and the types of experiences that were expected to follow from dedicated praxis. On the basis of historical contextualization and textual analysis it is demonstrated that in its formative and incipient organized phases Quanzhen was a Daoist religious community consisting of a few renunciants dedicated to religious praxis. The study proper is followed by a complete annotated translation of a text attributed to the founder, which represents one of only two early Quanzhen texts translated to date. Subsequent appendices address issues of dating and contents of the early textual corpus as well as technical Quanzhen religious terminology.

Book The Essential Shinran

Download or read book The Essential Shinran written by Shinran and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shinran (1173-1262) is the founder of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Buddhist tradition in Japan during the Kamakura period. This movement, once set in motion, eventually became the largest Buddhist sect in Japan and spread to the West at the end of the nineteenth century. Renowned scholar of Shin Buddhism, Alfred Bloom, presents the life and spiritual legacy of Shinran Shonin, the influential religious reformer and founder of Pure Land Buddhism, the most popular school of Buddhism in Japan today. Bloom presents a wide selection of Shinran's essential writings on the key Shin Buddhist idea of true entrusting (shinjin) to the Other-Power of Amida Buddha through His Vow to save all sentient beings. The Essential Teachings of Shinran, also, includes a foreword by Shin Buddhist scholar, Rueben Habito, a detailed glossary of foreign terms, and a select bibliography for further reading.

Book Eihei Dogen  Mystical Realist

Download or read book Eihei Dogen Mystical Realist written by Hee-Jin Kim and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Japanese branch of the Soto Zen Buddhist school, is considered one of the world's most remarkable religious philosophers. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist is a comprehensive introduction to the genius of this brilliant thinker. This thirteenth-century figure has much to teach us all and the questions that drove him have always been at the heart of Buddhist practice. At the age of seven, in 1207, Dogen lost his mother, who at her death earnestly asked him to become a monastic to seek the truth of Buddhism. We are told that in the midst of profound grief, Dogen experienced the impermanence of all things as he watched the incense smoke ascending at his mother's funeral service. This left an indelible impression upon the young Dogen; later, he would emphasize time and again the intimate relationship between the desire for enlightenment and the awareness of impermanence. His way of life would not be a sentimental flight from, but a compassionate understanding of, the intolerable reality of existence. At age 13, Dogen received ordination at Mt. Hiei. And yet, a question arose: "As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?" When it became clear that no one on Mt. Hiei could give a satisfactory answer to this spiritual problem, he sought elsewhere, eventually making the treacherous journey to China. This was the true beginning of a life of relentless questioning, practice, and teaching - an immensely inspiring contribution to the Buddhadharma. As you might imagine, a book as ambitious as Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist has to be both academically rigorous and eminently readable to succeed. Professor Hee-Jim Kim's work is indeed both.

Book The Heart of Dogen s Shobogenzo

Download or read book The Heart of Dogen s Shobogenzo written by 道元 and published by Marcombo. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of Dogen's most esteemed translators provide key chapters from his Zen masterpiece, the Shobogenzo, in English with annotations to guide the reader.

Book Diverse Voices in Chinese Translation and Interpreting

Download or read book Diverse Voices in Chinese Translation and Interpreting written by Riccardo Moratto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thoughtful and thorough account of diverse studies on Chinese translation and interpreting (TI). It introduces readers to a plurality of scholarly voices focusing on different aspects of Chinese TI from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. The book brings together eighteen essays by scholars at different stages of their careers with different relationships to translation and interpreting studies. Readers will approach Chinese TI studies from different standpoints, namely socio-historical, literary, policy-related, interpreting, and contemporary translation practice. Given its focus, the book benefits researchers and students who are interested in a global scholarly approach to Chinese TI. The book offers a unique window on topical issues in Chinese TI theory and practice. It is hoped that this book encourages a multilateral, dynamic, and international approach in a scholarly discussion where, more often than not, approaches tend to get dichotomized. This book aims at bringing together international leading scholars with the same passion, that is delving into the theoretical and practical aspects of Chinese TI.

Book Zen Letters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yuanwu
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Zen Letters written by Yuanwu and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written by the great Chinese master Yuanwu present the teachings of Zen in accessible, person-to-person lessons and reveal the inner workings of the psychology of enlightenment

Book Allgemeines englisch deutsches und deutsch englisches w  rterbuch

Download or read book Allgemeines englisch deutsches und deutsch englisches w rterbuch written by Johann Gottfried Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book M  dhyamika and Yog  c  ra

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gadjin M. Nagao
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1991-01-08
  • ISBN : 9780791401873
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book M dhyamika and Yog c ra written by Gadjin M. Nagao and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nagao invariably focuses on the core of Mahāyāna Buddhism--the path of the Bodhisattva, the doctrine of śūnyatā, and the system of Trisvabhāva are explained. Important technical terms used in the Mahayana textual tradition, whose exact understanding is imperative for the study of Mahāyāna Buddhism, are skillfully presented, making the book indispensable to scholars of Buddhist studies.

Book

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  • Author : 夏目漱石
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2004-11
  • ISBN : 9784805307670
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book written by 夏目漱石 and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these rare personal essays, Soseki defines the role of art in light of the isolation of the modern world. Each essay includes personal anecdotes that act as allegories about the fate of Japan. In her introduction, Soseki expert Dr. Inger Sigrun Brodey masterfully unravels the complexities of the two essays.

Book The Sound of Liberating Truth

Download or read book The Sound of Liberating Truth written by Paul Ingram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers essays and dialogues by well-known Buddhist and Christian scholars on topics that were of primary interest to Frederick J. Streng, in whose honour the volume was created. Topics include interreligious dialogue, ultimate reality, nature and ecology, social and political issues of liberation, and ultimate transformation or liberation.

Book A Universal English German and German English Dictionary

Download or read book A Universal English German and German English Dictionary written by Felix Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ceasing of Notions

Download or read book The Ceasing of Notions written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, discovered in the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls--ancient texts unknown for centuries. The Ceasing of Notions is one such text. It takes a unique form: a dialogue between two imaginary figures, a master and his disciple, in which the disciple tenaciously pursues the master's pity utterances with follow-up questions that propel the dialogue toward ever more profound insights. And these questions prove to be the reader's very own. Soko Morinaga brings alive this compact and brilliant text with his own vivid commentary. This volume also includes a generous selection from Morinaga's acclaimed autobiography, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of my Own Stupidity.

Book The Shinshu Seiten

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  • Author : Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book The Shinshu Seiten written by Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: