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What is Buddhist enlightenment? / Dale S. Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780190622602
  • 0190622601
  • 9780190622619
  • 019062261X
  • 9780190622626
  • 0190622628
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What is Buddhist enlightenment?DDC classification:
  • 294.3/442 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ4398
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: why ask what enlightenment is? -- 1. The Bodhisattva's practice of enlightenment -- 2. The awakening of character as an image of contemporary enlightenment -- 3. Secular Buddhism and the religious dimension of enlightenment -- 4. Enlightenment and the experience of Karma -- 5. Enlightenment and the moral dimension of Zen training -- 6. Enlightenment and the persistence of human fallibility -- 7. The thought of enlightenment and the dilemma of human achievement -- 8. Language in Zen enlightenment -- 9. Enlightenment and the practice of meditative reading -- 10. From the thought of enlightenment to the event of awakening -- Conclusion: ten theses on contemporary enlightenment.
Summary: Dale Wright offers a wide-ranging exploration of issues that have a bearing on the contemporary meaning of enlightenment. He considers the historical meanings of enlightenment within various Buddhist traditions, but does so in order to expand on the larger question that our lives press upon us-what kinds of lives should we aspire to live here, now, and into the future?
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1339519

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Introduction: why ask what enlightenment is? -- 1. The Bodhisattva's practice of enlightenment -- 2. The awakening of character as an image of contemporary enlightenment -- 3. Secular Buddhism and the religious dimension of enlightenment -- 4. Enlightenment and the experience of Karma -- 5. Enlightenment and the moral dimension of Zen training -- 6. Enlightenment and the persistence of human fallibility -- 7. The thought of enlightenment and the dilemma of human achievement -- 8. Language in Zen enlightenment -- 9. Enlightenment and the practice of meditative reading -- 10. From the thought of enlightenment to the event of awakening -- Conclusion: ten theses on contemporary enlightenment.

Dale Wright offers a wide-ranging exploration of issues that have a bearing on the contemporary meaning of enlightenment. He considers the historical meanings of enlightenment within various Buddhist traditions, but does so in order to expand on the larger question that our lives press upon us-what kinds of lives should we aspire to live here, now, and into the future?

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