[PDF.73ye] Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism)

Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism)

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 | #2053734 in Books |  2016-11-30 |  2016-11-30 | Original language:English |  9.00 x6.00 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 376 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Michael L. Nixon|Everything was great!| |"A carefully documented and beautifully written account of the history of a set of somatic practices that has been a part of Chinese Buddhism for some fifteen hundred years yet heretofore received scant attention in the scholarly literature... Benn has done an

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 ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism)   |  James A. Benn.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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