Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise 9780824861940
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Conventions of Usage
Introduction. Prolegomenon to the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature
Part 1. The Historical and Cosmological Background
1. The Date and Provenance of the Treasure Store Treatise
2. Chinese Buddhism and the Cosmology of Sympathetic Resonance
Part 2: Annotated Translation of the Treasure Store Treatise
Introduction to the Translation
3. The Treasure Store Treatise Chapter One: The Broad Illumination of Emptiness and Being
4. The Treasure Store Treatise Chapter Two: The Essential Purity of Transcendence and Subtlety
5. The Treasure Store Treatise Chapter Three: The Empty Mystery of the Point of Genesis
Appendix 1. On Esoteric Buddhism in China
Appendix 2. Scriptural Quotations in the Treasure Store Treatise
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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