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Burning for the Buddha Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
摘要: Burning for the Buddha Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism 作者:James A. Benn出版社: University of Hawaii Press副标题: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism出版年: 2007-2-28页数: 378定价: USD 50.00装帧: HardcoverISBN: 9780824829926内容简介 Burning for the Buddha is the first bo
Burning for the Buddha Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
作者:James A. Benn
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
副标题: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
出版年: 2007-2-28
页数: 378
定价: USD 50.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780824829926
内容简介
Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.
作者简介
James A. Benn is professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at McMaster University.
目录
Intro
Contents
Introduction
“Mounting the Smoke with Glittering Colors”
The Lotus Sûtra, Auto-Cremation, and the Indestructible Tongue
Samgha and the State
Is Self-Immolation a “Good Practice”?
Local Heroes in a Fragmenting Empire
One Thousand Years of Self- Immolation
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Notes
Bibliography
Index
作者:James A. Benn
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
副标题: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
出版年: 2007-2-28
页数: 378
定价: USD 50.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780824829926
内容简介
Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.
作者简介
James A. Benn is professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at McMaster University.
目录
Intro
Contents
Introduction
“Mounting the Smoke with Glittering Colors”
The Lotus Sûtra, Auto-Cremation, and the Indestructible Tongue
Samgha and the State
Is Self-Immolation a “Good Practice”?
Local Heroes in a Fragmenting Empire
One Thousand Years of Self- Immolation
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Notes
Bibliography
Index