The Arhats in China and Japan
The Arhats in China and Japan

Author: Marinus Willem de Visser

Publisher: Martino Pub

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9781578986491

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In Theravada Buddhism the Buddha himself is first named as an Arahat, as were his enlightened followers, since he is free from all defilements, without greed, hatred, and delusion, rid of ignorance and craving, having no "assets" that will lead to a future birth, knowing and seeing the real here and now. This virtue shows stainless purity, true worth, and the accomplishment of the end, Nibbana. In the Pali canon, Ven. Ananda states that he has known monastics to achieve Nibbana in one of four ways: * one develops insight preceded by serenity (Pali: samatha-pubba?gama? vipassana?); * one develops serenity preceded by insight (vipassana-pubba?gama? samatha?); * one develops serenity and insight in a stepwise fashion (samatha-vipassana? yuganaddha?); * one's mind becomes seized by excitation about the Dhamma and, as a consequence, develops serenity and abandons the fetters (dhamma-uddhacca-viggahita? manasa? hoti). This is one of the few works on arhats in china and japan. Scarce.Quarto.Book 215 p. xvi pl.. Berlin, Oesterheld & Co., 1923

Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia
Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia

Author: Juliane Schober

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9788120818125

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the biographical genre of the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Scholars in the history of religions, anthropology, literature and art history present a broad range of explorations into sacred biography as an interpretive genre. Easch essay makes unique contributions and the collection as a whole engages methodological and interpretive approaches that are central to scholars of Buddhism and those specializing in the study of south and Southeast Asia.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism

Author: Helen J. Baroni, Ph.D.

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2002-01-15

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780823922406

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Over 1,700 alphabetically-arranged entries cover the beliefs, practices, significant movements, organizations, and personalities associated with Zen Buddhism.

The Rhetoric of Immediacy
The Rhetoric of Immediacy

Author: Bernard Faure

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1400844266

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Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals how Chan structures its practice and doctrine on such mental paradigms as mediacy/immediacy, sudden/gradual, and center/margins.

Wisdom Embodied
Wisdom Embodied

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1588393992

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Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --