Taigen Dan Leighton

Visions of Awakening Space and Time

Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra

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Produktbeschreibung

As a religion concerned with eternal salvation, Zen is based on and grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Leighton explicates this worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, which is now spreading in many places in the West. Broader awareness of Dogen's worldview and its implications, says Leighton, is helpful for a modern understanding of Zen and Mahayana praxis, and is relevant to contemporary environmental and ethical concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780195320930
• ISBN-10: 019532093X
• Artikelnr.: 24848229

Autorenporträt

Taigen Dan Leighton is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Theological Union, Institute of Buddhist Studies and author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression. He is primary co-translator and editor for several Zen translations, including Dōgen's Extensive Record and Cultivating the Empty Field. He is also a Sōtō Zen priest and Dharma heir.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
II.: . Hermeneutics and Discourse Styles in Study of the Lotus Sutra and Dogen
III.: . Selected East Asian Interpretations of the Story
IV.: . Dogen's Interpretations of this Lotus Sutra Story
V.: . Dogen's View of Earth, Space, and Time Seen in Mahayana Context
Afterword: Implications of Dogen's Mahayana Worldview