Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side (eBook)

A Guide to the Lotus Sutra

Jr. Donald S. Lopez, Jacqueline I. Stone (Autoren)

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2019
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18980-2 (ISBN)

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An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classicThe Lotus Sutra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it asserts the potential for all beings to attain supreme enlightenment. Donald Lopez and Jacqueline Stone provide an essential reading companion to this inspiring yet enigmatic masterpiece, explaining how it was understood by its compilers in India and, centuries later in medieval Japan, by one of its most influential proponents.In this illuminating chapter-by-chapter guide, Lopez and Stone show how the sutra's anonymous authors skillfully reframed the mainstream Buddhist tradition in light of a new vision of the path and the person of the Buddha himself, and examine how the sutra's metaphors, parables, and other literary devices worked to legitimate that vision. They go on to explore how the Lotus was interpreted by the Japanese Buddhist master Nichiren (1222-1282), whose inspired reading of the book helped to redefine modern Buddhism. In doing so, Lopez and Stone demonstrate how readers of sacred works continually reinterpret them in light of their own unique circumstances.An invaluable guide to an incomparable spiritual classic, this book unlocks the teachings of the Lotus for modern readers while providing insights into the central importance of commentary as the vehicle by which ancient writings are given contemporary meaning.

Autor

Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. His books include The "Lotus Sūtra": A Biography (Princeton). He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Jacqueline I. Stone is professor of religion at Princeton University. Her books include Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism. She lives in Kingston, New Jersey.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Abhidharma • Admiration • Ancient India • Apocryphon • Arhat • Asceticism • Asura (Buddhism) • author • bathing • Bhikkhu • Bodhisattva • Bodhisattvas of the Earth • bodhisattva vow • Bodhi Tree • Buddhahood • Buddhavacana • Buddhism • Buddhism in Japan • Buddhist cosmology • Buddhist devotion • Buddhist Ethics • Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit • Buddhist modernism • Buddhist symbolism • buddhist texts • Chinese characters • Clergy • Consciousness • Copy editing • Courtier • credibility • Daji • Daosheng • deity • Delusion • Devadatta • Dharmachakra • Dharmakaya • Discernment • Docetism • Doctrine • Early Buddhism • Edition (book) • Ennin • Eternal Buddha • Exegesis • Faxian • Gautama Buddha • Generosity • Genshin • Gohonzon • Good and evil • Guanyin • Hindu temple • Hongaku • honzon • Householder (Buddhism) • Huiyuan (Buddhist) • Hungry ghost • I Ching • impermanence • Jetavana • Jizang • Kalpa (aeon) • Karma in Buddhism • Kegon • Kuiji • Laity • Lotus Sutra • luck • Mahayana • Maitreya • Monastery • Monasticism • Mount Hiei • Namu Myoho Renge Kyo • Naraka (Buddhism) • narrative • Nichiren • Nichiren Buddhism • Omniscience • Ostracism • Otherworld • pagination • parable • Paramita • perfection of wisdom • Persecution • phenomenon • Polemic • Pratityasamutpada • Pratyekabuddha • Precept • Prediction • preta • Princeton University Press • Prophecy • Proselytism • Publication • Pure Land Buddhism • Reality in Buddhism • redemptive suffering • Reincarnation • Relic • Religion • Religious pluralism • religious text • Renunciation • Repentance • Rite • Salvation • Samantabhadra • Sanskrit • Sarnath • SCHOLASTICISM • Schools of Buddhism • Self-Immolation • Sentient beings (Buddhism) • Sermon • Shakubuku • Shingon Buddhism • Soka Gakkai International • Southeast Asia • Spiritual development • Stupa • subtle body • Suffering • Sunyata • Sutra • tendai • Ten suchnesses • The Buddhist (TV channel) • The Venerable • Tiantai • Tibetan Buddhism • Tibetan Buddhist canon • Tripi?aka • Tuberculosis • Turban • Twelve Nidanas • Upaya • Vajrayana • vasubandhu • veneration • Vulture Peak • wealth effect • White Lotus • World • World to come • Worship • Writing • Yogi • zen master • Zhiyi
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18980-3 / 0691189803
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18980-2 / 9780691189802