The Threefold Lotus Sutra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Threefold Lotus Sutra write by Kato Bunno. This book was released on 1993. The Threefold Lotus Sutra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Sutra
American Sutra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Sutra write by Duncan Ryuken Williams. This book was released on 2019. American Sutra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese-American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.--
The Diamond Sutra
The Diamond Sutra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Diamond Sutra write by Frances Wood. This book was released on 2010. The Diamond Sutra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the book produced in AD 868 and found in 1907; describes the physical object and recent conservation work; places the sutra in the history of Chinese printing and paper making.
The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen
The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen write by Thomas Cleary. This book was released on 1998-09-14. The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hui-neng (638–713) is perhaps the most beloved and respected figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a flash, he became the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen, and is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" school. He is the supreme exemplar of the fact that neither education nor social background has any bearing on the attainment of enlightenment. This collection of his talks, also known as the Platform or Altar Sutra, is the only Zen record of its kind to be generally honored with the appellation sutra, or scripture. The Sutra of Hui-neng is here accompanied by Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra—in its very first published English translation ever.
Shaping the Lotus Sutra
Shaping the Lotus Sutra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaping the Lotus Sutra write by Eugene Yuejin Wang. This book was released on 2005. Shaping the Lotus Sutra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments depict celestial journeys, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. Yet the cosmos revealed in these tableaux is strikingly different from that found in the text of the sutra. Shaping the Lotus Sutra explores this visual world. Challenging long-held assumptions about Buddhist art, Eugene Wang treats it as a window to an animated and spirited world. Rather than focus on individual murals as isolated compositions, Wang views the entire body of pictures adorning a cave shrine or a pagoda as a visual mapping of an imaginary topography that encompasses different temporal and spatial domains. He demonstrates that the text of the Lotus Sutra does not fully explain the pictures and that a picture, or a series of them, constitutes its own "text." In exploring how religious pictures sublimate cultural aspirations, he shows that they can serve both political and religious agendas and that different social forces can co-exist within the same visual program. These pictures inspired meditative journeys through sophisticated formal devices such as mirroring, mapping, and spatial programming - analytical categories newly identified by Wang. The book examines murals in cave shrines at Binglingsi and Dunhuang in northwestern China and relief sculptures in the grottoes of Yungang in Shanxi, on stelae from Sichuan, and on the Dragon-and-Tiger pagoda in Shandong, among other sites. By tracing formal impulses in medieval Chinese picture-making, such as topographic mapping and pictorial illusionism, the author pieces together a wide range of visual evidence and textual sources to reconstruct the medieval Chinese cognitive style and mental world. The book is ultimately a history of the Chinese imagination. Read an interview with the author: http: //dgeneratefilms.com/cinematalk/cinematalk-interview-with-professor-eugene-wang-on-chinese-art-and-film/
