中国仏教における焼身自己滅却 Burning for the Buddha : Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism)

中国仏教における焼身自己滅却<br>Burning for the Buddha : Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism)

中国仏教における焼身自己滅却
Burning for the Buddha : Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism)

Benn, James A.

University of Hawai'i Press（2007/02発売）

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 376 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780824829926
DDC分類 294.30951

基本説明

This is the first booklength study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body" (self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism.

Full Description

Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of ""abandoning the body"" (self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.