Download PDF by Gregory Price Grieve: Cyber Zen: Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community,

Download e-book for kindle: Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana by Alan Cole

This superbly written paintings sheds new mild at the origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism with shut readings of 4 famous texts—the Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Tathagatagarbha Sutra, and Vimalakirtinirdesa. Treating those sutras as literary works instead of as easy philosophic or doctrinal treatises, Alan Cole argues that those writings have been rigorously sculpted to undermine conventional monastic Buddhism and to realize legitimacy and authority for Mahayana Buddhism because it used to be veering clear of Buddhism’s older oral and institutional kinds.

New PDF release: Sagesse des contes Bouddhistes: Exercices philosophiques

Chacune des grandes religions est porteuse de sagesse. C'est le aspect de départ de cette assortment qui suggest 20 méditations pour penser sa vie et donner du sens à son life. Faut-il chercher à tout savoir ? Sommes-nous responsable de ce qui nous arrive ? Peut-on maîtriser ses émotions ? Doit-on souffrir pour se réaliser ?

Download PDF by Robert Ford Campany: Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from

In early medieval China 1000s of Buddhist miracle texts have been circulated, inaugurating a development that may proceed for hundreds of years. each one story stated notable occasions regarding chinese language individuals and places—events obvious as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the truth of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices.

Download e-book for iPad: Patrons and Patriarchs: Regional Rulers and Chan Monks by Benjamin Brose

Consumers and Patriarchs breaks new floor within the research of clergy-court kinfolk throughout the tumultuous interval that spanned the cave in of the Tang dynasty (618–907) and the consolidation of the Northern tune (960–1127). this period, referred to as the 5 Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, has commonly been characterised as a time of debilitating violence and instability, however it additionally introduced elevated financial prosperity, local improvement, and political autonomy to southern territories.