
Buddhist Cosmic Unity
An Edition, Translation and Study of the "Anunatvapur?atvanirdesaparivarta"
Jonathan A. Silk(Author)
Michael Zimmermann(Editor)
Hamburg University Press - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
1st Edition
Published on 14. April 2015
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-3-943423-22-8 (ISBN)
Description
The "Anunatvapur?atvanirdesaparivarta" is a short Mahayana sutra extant in its entirety only in Chinese translation. To judge from its use as a proof-text in the seminal philosophical treatise "Ratnagotravibhaga", which quotes roughly half of the sutra, it is a fundamental scripture expressing ideas about the unitary nature of sa?sara and nirva?a, and each individual's innate capacity for awakening, called in this text and elsewhere 'tathagatagarbha,' 'embryo of the tathagatas.' Although the text has hitherto drawn the attention primarily of Japanese scholars, this is the first critical edition of the sutra, aligning its Chinese text with the available Sanskrit, offering a richly annotated English translation, a detailed introduction which places the work in its historical and doctrinal context, and a number of appendices exploring key notions, providing a reading text shorn of annotation, and enumerating the prolific quotations of the work found in Chinese Buddhist literature. This volume is thus an important contribution to studies of developing Mahayana Buddhism, Buddhist doctrine and the textual history of scriptures.
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Series
Edition
Erstausgabe
Language
English
Place of publication
Hamburg
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
With ribbon marker(s)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
556 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-943423-22-8 (9783943423228)
DOI
10.15460/hup.104.771
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jonathan A. Silk is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.