This eight-volume set brings together seminal papers in Buddhist studies from a vast range of academic disciplines published over the last forty years. With a new introduction by the editor, this collection is a unique and unrivalled research resource for both student and scholar. Coverage includes: - Buddhist origins; early history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia - early Buddhist Schools and Doctrinal History; Theravada Doctrine - the Origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism; some Mahayana religious topics - Abhidharma and Madhyamaka - Yogacara, the Epistemological tradition, and Tathagatagarbha - Tantric Buddhism (Including China and Japan); Buddhism in Nepal and Tibet - Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, and - Buddhism in China, East Asia, and Japan.That well-known a#39;workshop manuala#39; (to quote an economic historiana#39;s description ), the Lotus Sutra, provides an overlapping list of gold, silver and so forth as permissible substances out of which to form an image of the Buddha19. Yet theanbsp;...
Title | : | Buddhism: Buddhism in China, East Asia, and Japan |
Author | : | Paul Williams |
Publisher | : | Taylor & Francis - 2005 |
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