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Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism

Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism

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Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism, Book 37

BuddhismChinese History

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ISBN10: 0824867890
ISBN13: 9780824867898
Publisher: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
Published: Nov 30 2016
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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