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| Stairway to Nirvāna: A Study of the Twenty Saṃghas Based on the Works of Tsong kha pa | ||
| 作者 | Apple, James B. (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2009.01 |
| 頁次 | 287 |
| 出版者 | State University of New York Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://sunypress.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Albany, NY, US [奧爾巴尼, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | James B. Apple is University Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Religious Studies Program at the University of Alberta. |
| 摘要 | James B. Apple examines one of the formative subjects in traditional Buddhist studies, the Twenty Varieties of the Saṃgha. The Saṃgha (community) is one of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Saṃgha) universally revered by all Buddhists. While the Saṃgha is generally understood as the community of Buddhist ordained monks and nuns, along with lay adherents, the Twenty Varieties of the Saṃgha concerns an exemplary community of the twenty types of Noble Beings (ārya-pudgala) who embody the Buddha's teachings. Focusing on the interpretation of the Saṃgha given by the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar Tsong kha pa, Apple provides a comprehensive typology and analysis of the stages through which Noble Beings pass in their progress toward enlightenment through multiple lifetimes in various cosmological realms. He explains the cosmographic formations and complex structures of Buddhist spiritual cultivation, illustrating how Tibetan and Indian Buddhists conceptualize all possible states on the path to enlightenment. |
| 目次 | List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. The Topic of the Twenty Saṃgha Methodological Considerations Tsong kha pa’s Hermeneutical Strategy Hermeneutical Strategies in Approaching the Twenty Saṃgha 2. Tsong kha pa and the Abhisamayālamkāra Commentarial Tradition Indian Predecessors in the Abhisamayālamkāra Tradition Tsong kha pa’s Tibetan Predecessors in the Abhisamayālamkāra Tradition The Abhisamayālamkāra and Twenty Saṃgha in Tsong kha pa’s Life and Works Summary 3. Contextual and Doctrinal Presumptions Locating the Twenty Saṃgha in the Abhisamayālamkāra Saṃgha in Early Buddhism and in the Abhisamayālamkāra Avaivartika-Saṃgha as Refuge in the Abhisamayālamkāra Path and Yogic Systems of the Abhisamayālamkāra Cosmological Factors Summary 4. Analysis of the Twenty Saṃgha An Introduction to the Topic from the Root Texts The Allegorical Saṃgha of Śrāvakas 5. An Assembly of Irreversible Bodhisattvas The Actual Saṃgha of Bodhisattvas Enumerating Bodhisattvas in the Prajñāpāramitā Relationship between the Actual Saṃgha and the Allegorical Saṃgha Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index |
| ISBN | 9780791473764 (pbk); 9780791473757 (hc) |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2025.12.30 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.12.30 |
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