Buddhist spirituality : later China, Korea, Japan and the modern world. /

Yoshinori, Takeuchi

Buddhist spirituality : later China, Korea, Japan and the modern world. / edited by Takeuchi Yoshinori in association with James W. Heisig, Paul L. Swanson, and Joseph S. O'Leary. - New York, N.Y. : Crossroad Pub., 1999 - xxiii, 550 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Emphasizes on sudden or immediate enlightenment and it accompanying doctrine of immanent Buddha-nature.In Buddhist self-understanding in today's world,the experience of the socially engaged Buddhists is not centered alone in ethical practices but on enactment and verification of Buddhist insight.thus the path of Buddhist liberation are clarified not only in the quiet meditation but also in the in their effectiveness in situations of injustice,violence,and environmental depredation.Thus all ideologies in Buddhism are made to pay close attention and commands involvement to the reality of situations to which they claim to refer ,and pave to cultivate an integral vision of the plight of people leading them to the exper

ience of liberation.

Contents:Part Three:Later China ,Part Four:Korea,Part Five:Japan,Part 6:Art,Society,and New Dimension

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BQ 614 .B859 1999