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Author : Donald S. Lopez
Release : 1998
Genre : Tripiṭaka
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Book Rating : 537/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Elaborations on Emptiness by : Donald S. Lopez
Download or read book Elaborations on Emptiness written by Donald S. Lopez. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Release : 2016-11-22
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Elaborations on Emptiness by : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Download or read book Elaborations on Emptiness written by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.. This book was released on 2016-11-22. 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.
Author : Donald S. Lopez (Jr.)
Release : 1996
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Elaborations on Emptiness - Uses of the Heart Sutra by : Donald S. Lopez (Jr.)
Download or read book Elaborations on Emptiness - Uses of the Heart Sutra written by Donald S. Lopez (Jr.). This book was released on 1996. 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.
Author : Donald S. Lopez
Release : 1988-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 897/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Heart Sutra Explained by : Donald S. Lopez
Download or read book The Heart Sutra Explained written by Donald S. Lopez. This book was released on 1988-01-01. 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.
Author : James Wilson
Release : 2022-08-07
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Book Synopsis Facets of Emptiness by : James Wilson
Download or read book Facets of Emptiness written by James Wilson. This book was released on 2022-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heart Sutra is a short, one page, Buddhist scripture that is chanted in countless monasteries, temples, practice centers, and at many home altars. The Heart Sutra focuses on the nature of emptiness and the salvific nature of the experience of emptiness. Understandings of the nature of emptiness have varied over the centuries. This commentary, Facets of Emptiness, offers an introduction to many of these facets, as well as poetic and intuitive elaborations on emptiness.
