Ronald Y. Nakasone

Mapping the Pathways of Huayan Buddhist Thought

Its Origins, Unfolding, and Relevance

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Produktbeschreibung

The Huayan scholar-monk Fazang (643-712) formulated, with the 'Ten Subtle and Unimpeded Dharma-Gates' of Pratityasamutpada, or 'Ten Dharma-Gates,' a series of cognitive and affective paradigms that describe how the Enlightenment-Mind apprehends reality. These patterns, in turn, model the way Buddhists understand, explain, configure, reflection, imagine, and engage the world. The basis for these paradigms is the truth and experience of pratityasamutpada, 'dependent-co-arising,' which the Buddha intuited.

This book traces the origins and unfolding of the insight of an interdependent and multi-centered reality, which Fazang crystallizes with the 'Ten Dharma-Gates,' and employs that insight to reflect on modern ethical and moral concerns, curriculum design, and aesthetics. Examination of the presuppositions of Buddhist thought-distinguishing it from the certainty of absolute-centered ideologies that subsume all meaning and values-should be of interest to academics.Aestheticians, artists, and Buddhist devotees will appreciate the intuitive sources of Buddhism. This book opens new vistas for Buddhist studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 319234D
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781433192340
• ISBN-10: 1433192349
• Artikelnr.: 63617020

Autorenporträt

Ronald Y. Nakasone, a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, earned his MA from Ry¿koku University in Kyoto, Japan, and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written extensively on Buddhist doctrine, ethics, and aesthetics, aging and spirituality, and Ry¿ky¿an studies. He is a J¿do Shinsh¿ priest and a skilled sho(calligrapher)-artist.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Preface - Conventions - List of Illustrations - Introduction - Spiritual Geography - Mind, The Cartographer - Surveying the Terrain - Alternative and Ambiguous Maps - The Ambiguity of Death - Moral Ambiguity - Curriculum Design: Spirituality and Aging in the Japanese Experience - Spiritual Aesthetics of Sho (Calligraphy) - Dharma Gate of Beauty - Discoveries and Reflections - Glossary - Bibliography - Index - Index of Names.

Rezensionen

"Dr. Nakasone, long-time scholar of the Huayan (Avata saka) teachings, illuminates , dharmadhatu-pratityasamutpada, or "universal dependent co-arising," a core insight from the Buddha's experience of Awakening. The culmination of many years of study and reflection, this book is a richly rewarding investigation of essential Dharma for 21st century students of the Buddha's wisdom." -Heng Sure, Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and Senior Monastic at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Ukiah, California