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Paths to Liberation : The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought /

Paths to Liberation : The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought / ed. by Robert M. Gimello, Robert E. Buswell. - 1 online resource - Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 7 .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Theravāda Buddhist Soteriology and the Paradox of Desire -- Attainment through Abandonment: The Sarvāstivādin Path of Removing Defilements -- The Path to Perdition: The Wholesome Roots and Their Eradication -- On the Ignorance of the Arhat -- Paths Terminable and Interminable -- The Illusion of Spiritual Progress: Remarks on Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Soteriology -- A Tibetan Perspective on the Nature of Spiritual Experience -- Mental Concentration and the Unconditioned: A Buddhist Case for Unmediated Experience The Relation between Chinese Buddhist History and Soteriology -- Encounter Dialogue and the Transformation of the Spiritual Path in Chinese Ch'an -- Mārga and Culture: Learning, Letters, and Liberation in Northern Sung Ch'an -- Shortening the Path: Early Tendai Interpretations of the Realization of Buddhahood with This Very Body (Sokushin Jobutsu) -- No-Mind and Sudden Awakening: Thoughts on the Soteriology of a Kamakura Zen Text -- Index -- Contributors

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In English.

9780824890667

10.1515/9780824890667 doi


RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist).