
A Less Traveled Path: Saddharmasm?tyupasthanasutra, Chapter 2
Critically edited with A Study on Its Structure and Significance for the Development of Buddhist Meditation. Volume I and Volume II
Daniel Malinowski Stuart(Editor)
Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
642 pages
978-3-7001-7763-0 (ISBN)
Description
A Less Traveled Path brings to light unique textual evidence of an important transitional moment in Indian Buddhism. This book includes a critical edition and translation of the second chapter of a third- or fourth-century Buddhist Sanskrit text, the Saddharmasm?tyupasthanasutra, which sheds light on the so-called "Middle Period" of Indian Buddhism. In his introduction, Stuart argues that meditative practice, rhetoric, and philosophy were intimately tied to one another when the Saddharmasm?tyupasthanasutra was redacted, and that it serves as an important historical touchstone for understanding the development of Buddhist mind-centered metaphysics. This development is historically significant because it marks a major shift in Indian Buddhist religious practice, which conditioned the emergence of fully developed Mahayana path schemes and power-oriented tantric ritual traditions in the centuries that followed the text's compilation
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Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Wien
Austria
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 15 cm
Thickness: 61 mm
Weight
1640 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7001-7763-0 (9783700177630)
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Editor
is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Carolina
ISNI: 0000 0004 0338 5110 GND: 1033785253
ISNI: 0000 0004 0338 5110 GND: 1033785253