The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
204 CHAPTER EIGHT solve the riddle of the k'ung-an. The solution lay in actually being able to attain that ability in one's medi ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 205 ing the Five Dynasties period and adapted them into tools for keeping the practice from b ...
206 CHAPTER EIGHT laid the seeds for the school's periodic revival throughout the millennium since they were written down. This ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 207 any connection to Buddhism, much less to Ch' an. Also, their artistic styles were often q ...
208 CHAPTER EIGHT These trends influenced Buddhism on many levels. On the level of popu- lar devotion, the various pantheons of ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 209 he first received tonsure and meditation training); and chiao-men (his doctrinal lineage, ...
210 CHAPTER EIGHT no longer attracted high-caliber intellects, but the Ch'an school continued to produce innovative practitioner ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 211 women, children, and merchants without a Confucian education. Any young man who underwent ...
212 CHAPTER EIGHT create a peaceful environment for practice, sheltered from affairs of the world so that affairs of the mind ca ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 213 8. 7.1 Religious Life: Monastic Buddhist religious life had taken some unusual directions ...
214 CHAPTER EIGHT animals killed specifically to feed them. Strict vegetarianism for monks and nuns is a practice peculiar to ea ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 215 The baby Buddha stands with his right arm upraised as he announces that this is his final ...
216 CHAPTER EIGHT offerings to spirits or ancestors, resorting to a geomancer to bring the yin and yang forces in the environmen ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 217 The island of Taiwan was not occupied by the Communists after the revo- lution, and so it ...
218 CHAPTER EIGHT practice of Chinese Buddhism, with its appeals to Buddhas and bodhisattvas for divine help, that struck her as ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 219 each person is clouded by the dust of petty, selfish defilements. The relative density of ...
9 BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 9.1 An Indian Import via China T he culture~ of both Korea and Vietnam have long existed in an o ...
BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 221 Hua-yen and Fa-hsiang doctrine. We have already noted how Chegwan (see Section 8.5.1), a Korea ...
222 CHAPTER NINE beliefs. Symbolic of this integration was the tendency to build Buddhist tem- ples on secluded mountaintops. Li ...
BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 223 political tool for strengthening royal power. Then in 527 the Buddhist devotee Ich' adon consp ...
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