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Detailed explanation of the ʾBri-guṅ Bkaʾ-brgyud-pa dgoṅs gcig teaching.
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Meditation --- Meditation --- Meditation --- Rñiṅ-ma-pa (Sect) --- Rñiṅ-ma-pa (Sect) --- Rñiṅ-ma-pa (Sect). --- Rñiṅ-ma-pa (Sect). --- Tantric Buddhism. --- Rituals. --- Rituals.
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Buddhism. --- Shingon (Sect) --- Doctrines. --- Kūkai,
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Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to its emergence as the most powerful and influential school of Japanese Buddhism in the last half of the tenth century--a position it would maintain throughout the medieval period. This is the first study in a Western language of the institutional factors that lay behind the school's success. At its core is a biography of a major figure behind this transformation, Ryogen (912-985). The discussion, however, extends well beyond a simple biography as Ryogen's activities are placed in their historical and institutional context.Unlike the recluses and eccentrics that have so often attracted Western readers of Buddhism, Ryogen was a consummate politician and builder. Because he lost his major monastic sponsor at an early age, he was forced to find ways to advance his career with little support. His activities reveal much about the path to success for monks during the tenth century. Skill in debate, the performance of Esoteric Buddhist ritual, and strategic alliances with powerful lay and monastic figures were important to his advance. In 966 Ryogen was appointed head of the Tendai School and served until his death nineteen years later. He has been vilified at times for his loyalty to his own faction within Tendai at the expense of other groups. Careful analysis of the political and social factors behind his attitudes, however, places his activities in their appropriate context.The study concludes with a discussion of the ordinations and roles of nuns during the early Heian period. An examination of Ryogen's close relation with his mother helps define the ambiguities of a school that prohibited women from the precincts of its temple yet performed rituals to insure safe childbirth and frequently attracted their patronage. A number of primary sources are translated in the appendices.
Tendai priests --- Tendai (Sect) --- History. --- Ryōgen,
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"The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo provides annotated translations of the difficult core essays of Shobogenzo, the masterwork of Japanese Zen master Dogen Kigen, the founder of Soto Zen. This book is centered around those essays that generations have regarded as containing the essence of Dogen's teaching. These translations, revised from those that first appeared in the 1970s, clarify and enrich the understanding of Dogen's religious thought and his basic ideas about Zen practice and doctrine. Dogen's uncommon intellectual gifts, combined with a profound religious attainment and an extraordinary ability to articulate it, make Shobogenzo unique even in the vast literature the Zen school has produced over the centuries, securing it a special place in the history of world religious literature."--Jacket
Sōtōshū --- 曹洞宗 --- Sōtō Zen Sect --- Sōtō School --- Chodongjong --- 조동종 --- Doctrines --- Zen Buddhism. --- Sōtōsh --- Chʻan Buddhism --- Dhyāna (Sect) --- Zen --- Zen (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism
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This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's valuable series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism. 'Dzong-ka-ba '(1357-1419) is generally regarded as one of the greatest Tibetan philosophers, and his "Mind-Only" discourse on emptiness is considered a landmark in Buddhist philosophy. In Volume 2, 'Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism, 'Hopkins provided a translation of the introduction and section on the Mind-Only School in 'The Essence of Eloquence. 'The present volume places this enigmatic and influential exposition in its historical and philosophical contexts. 'Reflections on Reality 'conveys the intellectual vibrancy of the different cultural interpretations of this text and expands the key philosophical issues it addresses.
Vijñaptimātratā. --- Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) --- Doctrines. --- Vijñaptimātratā. --- Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa, --- Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) - Doctrines.
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Subject of The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism are both the mainstream Tibetan canons of translated Buddhist classics (known as the Bka' 'gyur & Bstan 'gyur), and the alternative canons of literature of the Nyingma sectarian traditions (known as the Rnying ma rgyud 'bum). The first section discusses the formation and transmission of Tibetan "canonical" texts, but also includes important works of reference, such as a Bka' gdams pa handbook and several unique catalogues. It also features a first report on Tibetan textual transmission in Mongolia. The second section not only presents interpretative analysis of one of the most important alternative canons in Tibet, the Rnying ma rgyud 'bum, but also discusses essential issues of legitimacy, authority and lineage during the "gray" period of the tenth to twelfth centuries which laid the foundation for the formation of all ensuing Tibetan canons. The volume thus develops fresh perspectives on the nature, plurality and contents of canons in Tibetan Buddhism.
Buddhist literature, Tibetan --- Rnying-ma-pa (Sect) --- History and criticism --- Sacred books --- Buddhism
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Shin (Sect) --- Buddhism --- History. --- History --- J1879 --- J1800.40 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Jōdo shin (True pure land school) --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- Shin (Sect) - History. --- Buddhism - Japan - History - 1185-1600.
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