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| A Modern Buddhist Bible: Essential Readings from East and West | ||
| 作者 | Lopez, Donald Sewell, Jr. |
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| 出版日期 | 2002.11.18 |
| 頁次 | 312 |
| 出版者 | Beacon Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.beacon.org |
| 出版地 | Boston, MA, US [波士頓, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Donald S. Lopez, Jr. is professor of Buddhist and Tibetan studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent books are The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History and Teachings and Prisoners of Shangri-La. |
| 關鍵詞 | 現代佛教=近代佛教=Contemporary Buddhism |
| 摘要 | The first book to bring together the key texts of modern BuddhismProlific Tibetan Buddhist scholar Lopez wonderfully advances his argument for framing a contemporary understanding of Buddhism that is rooted in history and pays attention to texts as well as practice. This "Bible" is a selection of 20th-century texts that have shaped modern Western-American Buddhism, which Lopez considers a sect in the same way that Thai or Tibetan Buddhism is a sect. The author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West assembles a canon for modern Buddhism, noting the interconnection of influential figures who form a kind of Buddhist lineage. The cast of characters includes some surprises, such as Theosophist Helena Blavatsky, as well as such usual suspects as Paul Carus, Alan Watts and W.Y. Evans-Wentz, who made The Tibetan Book of the Dead an accessible text. The selections are themselves diverse. The earlier 20th century writers provide fascinating views of the beginnings of the modern Asian-Western encounter of belief systems in the context of evolving postcolonial political awareness. An astute essay by Watts from 1959 on "Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen" might be worth the price of the book. Poems written by Allen Ginsberg about the death of maverick Tibetan Buddhist guru Trungpa Rinpoche simply resonate. The book is a great contribution to bridging the gap between the text-and-language camp of academic Buddhists and the practice, practice, practice camp of modern Buddhist adepts. |
| ISBN | 9780807012437 (pbk) |
| 點閱次數 | 2412 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.04.06 |
| 更新日期 | 2014.04.28 |
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