The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
184 CHAPTER EIGHT for rendering Buddhist ideas into Chinese, but only one-text using this vocab- ulary-the apocryphal Heart Sutr ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 185 less than a century, providing spells for producing rain and protecting the state. Upon t ...
186 CHAPTER EIGHT Whatever scorn later emperors may have felt for Buddhism, this perception may account for the fact that there ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 187 though neither is fully true. From this principle, Chih-i was able to build a system of g ...
188 CHAPTER EIGHT As with all categories in Chih-i's thought, these flavors are relative: Be- cause no words can adequately expr ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 189 Chih-i's thought had a far-reaching influence on east Asian Buddhism. Even those who did ...
190 CHAPTER EIGHT Chih-i), which became one of the standard texts of the school. Beginning in the eleventh century, T'ien-t'ai w ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 191 on the absolute separateness of the One Vehicle. Fa-tsang's analysis begins with the teac ...
192 CHAPTER EIGHT Fa-tsang worked out other implications of the dependent co-arising of the dharmadhatu in terms of three pairs ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 193 him, there is no Unconditioned separate from the Conditioned. The universe already is the ...
194 CHAPTER EIGHT One Vehicle, the superiority of the Avatmpsaka Sutra, the interpenetration of phenomena with phenomena-struck ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 195 sumptions of the first category-the existence of a self taking rebirth-by an- alyzing the ...
196 CHAPTER EIGHT 10.4). In Korea, Tsung-mi's thought provided the basis for Chinul's integra- tion of Son (Ch'an) and standard ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 197 explaining away the Sukhavati-vyuha Sutra's statement claiming that grave sin- ners are e ...
198 CHAPTER EIGHT members of the Southern School, gradually became more conciliatory. Tsung- rni, for instance, commented that t ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 199 initiated actions against it, until in 725 Hsiian-tsung succeeded in dissolving all of it ...
200 CHAPTER EIGHT Further comparison with the Kammatthana tradition reveals another point in common: an ambivalent attitude towa ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 201 new meanings to many of the terms. The most important doctrine for the school was the tea ...
202 CHAPTER EIGHT The Platform Sutra, despite its shaky historical foundations, became one of the most influential texts in the ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 203 their own in the following centuries as new stories accreted around them in response to i ...
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