Elaborations on Emptiness

Elaborations on Emptiness
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781400884513
ISBN-13 : 1400884519
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Book Synopsis Elaborations on Emptiness by : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Download or read book Elaborations on Emptiness written by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heart Sutra is perhaps the most famous Buddhist text, traditionally regarded as a potent expression of emptiness and of the Buddha's perfect wisdom. This brief, seemingly simple work was the subject of more commentaries in Asia than any other sutra. In Elaborations on Emptiness, Donald Lopez explores for the first time the elaborate philosophical and ritual uses of the Heart Sutra in India, Tibet, and the West. Included here are full translations of the eight extant Indian commentaries. Interspersed with the translations are six essays that examine the unusual roles the Heart Sutra has played: it has been used as a mantra, an exorcism text, a tantric meditation guide, and as the material for comparative philosophy. Taken together, the translations and essays that form Elaborations on Emptiness demonstrate why commentary is as central to modern scholarship on Buddhism as it was for ancient Buddhists. Lopez reveals unexpected points of instability and contradiction in the Heart Sutra, which, in the end, turns out to be the most malleable of texts, where the logic of commentary serves as a tool of both tradition and transgression.

Elaborations on Emptiness - Uses of the Heart Sutra

Elaborations on Emptiness - Uses of the Heart Sutra
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 069100188X
ISBN-13 : 9780691001883
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Download or read book Elaborations on Emptiness - Uses of the Heart Sutra written by Donald S. Lopez (Jr.) and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lopez reveals unexpected points of instability and contradiction in the Heart Sutra, which, in the end, turns out to be the most malleable of texts, where the logic of commentary serves as a tool of both tradition and transgression.

Elaborations on Emptiness

Elaborations on Emptiness
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Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 8121508533
ISBN-13 : 9788121508537
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Book Synopsis Elaborations on Emptiness by : Donald S. Lopez

Download or read book Elaborations on Emptiness written by Donald S. Lopez and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heart Attack Sutra

The Heart Attack Sutra
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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780834840386
ISBN-13 : 0834840383
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Book Synopsis The Heart Attack Sutra by : Karl Brunnholzl

Download or read book The Heart Attack Sutra written by Karl Brunnholzl and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the famous Heart Sūtra that reveals the tenderness and compassion underlying the striking rhetoric of this popular Buddhist text The radical message of the Heart Sūtra, one of Buddhism’s most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear: our troubles, the world as we know it, even the teachings of the Buddha himself. Several of the Buddha’s followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basic groundlessness of our existence—hence the title of this book. Overcoming fear, the Buddha teaches, is not to be accomplished by shutting down or building walls around oneself, but instead by opening up to understand the illusory nature of everything we fear—including ourselves. In this book of teachings, Karl Brunnhölzl guides practitioners through this ‘crazy’ sutra to the wisdom and compassion that lie at its core.

Religions of Tibet in Practice

Religions of Tibet in Practice
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 435
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ISBN-10 : 9780691188171
ISBN-13 : 0691188173
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Book Synopsis Religions of Tibet in Practice by : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Download or read book Religions of Tibet in Practice written by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition--abridged to further facilitate course use--presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries. Organized thematically, the twenty-eight chapters are testimony to the vast scope of religious practice in the Tibetan world, past and present. Religions of Tibet in Practice remains a work of great value to scholars, students, and general readers.

The Heart Sutra Explained

The Heart Sutra Explained
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 0887065899
ISBN-13 : 9780887065897
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Book Synopsis The Heart Sutra Explained by : Donald S. Lopez

Download or read book The Heart Sutra Explained written by Donald S. Lopez and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for its terse declaration of the perfection of wisdom, the Heart Sutra is the most famous of Buddhist scriptures. The author draws on previously unexamined commentaries, preserved only in Tibetan, to investigate the meanings derived from and invested into the sutra during the later period of Indian Buddhism. The Heart Sutra Explained offers new insights on "form is emptiness, emptiness is form," on the mantra "gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha," and on the synthesis of Madhyamika, Yogacara, and tantric thought that characterized the final period of Buddhism in India. It also includes complete translations of two nineteenth century Tibetan commentaries demonstrating the selective appropriation of Indian sources.

Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages

Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9789004468375
ISBN-13 : 9004468374
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Book Synopsis Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages by : Ester Bianchi

Download or read book Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages written by Ester Bianchi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sino-Tibetan Buddhism implies cross-cultural contacts and exchanges between China and Tibet. The ten case-studies collected in this book focus on the spread of Chinese Buddhism within a mainly Tibetan environment and the adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism among a Chinese-speaking audience throughout the ages.