Diamond Sutra (eBook)

Red Pine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
480 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-58243-953-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of mind-to-mind transmission without reliance on texts --in fact, some great teachers forbid their students to read or write. But Buddhism has also inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings of any religion, and two such works lie at the center of Zen: The Heart Sutra, which monks recite all over the world, and The Diamond Sutra, said to contain answers to all questions of delusion and dualism. This is the Buddhist teaching on the perfection of wisdom and cuts through all obstacles on the path of practice. As Red Pine explains: The Diamond Sutra may look like a book, but it's really the body of the Buddha. It's also your body, my body, all possible bodies. But it's a body with nothing inside and nothing outside. It doesn't exist in space or time. Nor is it a construct of the mind. It's no mind. And yet because it's no mind, it has room for compassion. This book is the offering of no mind, born of compassion for all suffering beings. Of all the sutras that teach this teaching, this is the diamond.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: American author • american poet • bill porter • bill portter • bill potter • Buddhism • buddhism poems • buddhist poetry • buddhist teachings • Buddhist text • buddhist translations • capturing a plum blossom • china wisdom • chinese poet • Chinese Translation • chinese translations • chinese translator • clouds should know me by now • cold mountain poems • copper canyon press • delusion and dualism • diamond sutra • Heart Sutra • in such hard times • Lao Tzu • Meditation • mountain poems of stonehouse • PEN/West translation prize winning author • philisophical writings • pilgrimage to china • poems about buddhism • port townsend author • port townsen poet • red tree • road to heaven • Sacred Texts • sanskrit translation • Stonehouse • sung po-jen • Sutra • t'ang sung dynasty • taoteching • text and commentary • the body of buddha • the perfection of wisdom • Townsend poet • Townsend translator • wei ying wu • yellow river odyssey • Zen • zen author • zen baggage • Zen Buddhism • zen poet • zen teachingsoxherding pictures and verses • zen translations • zen works of stonehouse
• ISBN-10: 1-58243-953-2 / 1582439532
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-953-2 / 9781582439532