Tao-Sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sutra: A Study and Translation
Kim, Young-ho
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Book ID : 17750
ISBN-10 : 81-7030-306-0 / 8170303060
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7030-306-0 / 9788170303060
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
1992
Edition : (First Indian Edition)
Language : English
xix, 374p., Abb. Gloss., Bib., Index, 23 cm. (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 101)
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
(Chu) Tao Sheng stands out in History as a unique and preeminent thinker whose paradigmatic, Original ideas paved the way for the advent of Chinese Buddhism, The Universality of Buddha nature, which Tao-Sheng Championed at the Cost of excommunication, was to become a cornerstone of the Chinese Buddhist ideology. This book presents a comprehensive Study of the only complete document by Tao-Sheng still in existence. The work was composed toward the end of Tao-Sheng’s life (in 432), a Product of his mature scholarship, presumably incorporating the doctrines pronounced earlier. The aim of this study are twofold: (1) to prepare a faithfull, undistorted translation of the Commentary in its entirety, in order to provide a basis and vantage point for further study and understanding of Tao-Sheng; and (2) to attempt to illuminate Tao-Sheng’s system of Religious Knowledge by examining the commentary in conjunction with other doctrines and writings, and thus to evaluate Tao-Sheng’s contribution to implanting (or transplanting) the Alien religious system in Chinese soil. Of course, the two objectives are not to be seen as separate tasks; they are closely bound up with one another.
