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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Part One. The Origins of a Buddhist Heresy
1. Hsin-hsing — A Buddhist Heretic?
Part Two. The Rhetoric of Decline
2. The Beginning: Decline as Polemic
3. The Chinese Systematization: Decline as Doctrine
4. Hsin-hsing: Decline as Human Nature
Part Three. Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood
5. The Refuge of the Universal Buddha
6. The Refuge of the Universal Dharma and Universal Sangha
Part Four. The Economy of Salvation
7. Practice for the Degenerate: The Inexhaustible Storehouse
8. The Suppressions of the Three Levels Movement
9. Time, Transcendence, and Heresy
Part Five. Texts
A. P’u fa ssu fo
B. Wu chin tsang fa lüeh shuo
C. Ta sheng fa chieh wu chin tsang fa shih
D. Reproduction of the Tun-huang Texts
Selected Bibliography
Index