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Comparing Abhidharma and Chinese Buddhist conceptions of the Buddha's word, Eun-su Cho's study addresses the transmission and reinterpretation of theories of language and opens a doorway to Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia. This is important because technical Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia has long been neglected.

The Madhyama Agama was translated into Chinese from a now lost Indian original in 398 CE. It corresponds mainly to the Majjhima Nikaya of the Pali canon, although many of its sutras have parallels in other sections of the Pali canon.

An anthology of excerpts from Buddhist canonical sources and historical records, arranged by theme. The collection offers a comprehensive and distinctive reading of the Buddhist canon, with a focus on practice.

Presents an anthology of excerpts from Buddhist canonical sources and historical records, arranged by theme. The collection offers a comprehensive and distinctive reading of the Buddhist canon, with a focus on practice.

Presents an anthology of excerpts from Buddhist canonical sources and historical records, arranged by theme. The collection offers a comprehensive and distinctive reading of the Buddhist canon, with a focus on practice.

The Buddhist thinkers of medieval India addressed many of the issues that are still central to Buddhist praxis now. One of the most important of those thinkers is Bhviveka, author of the Prajnpradpa. William Ames has translated, carefully and precisely, the first twelve chapters of that work, which he presents in this volume.

Contains four important texts in the Tiantai Lotus tradition: The Infinite Meanings Sutra, The Sutra Expounded by the Buddha on the Practice of the Way Through Contemplation of Bodhisattva All-Embracing Goodness, The Commentary on the Lotus Sutra, and A Guide to the Tiantai Fourfold Teachings.

This is the third and concluding volume in this translation of The Canonical Book of the Buddha's Lengthy Discourses (Taisho 1). Volume 3 contains sutras 21-30. The importance of the work may be signified by its position as the first work to lead off the Taisho edition of the canon.

Compiled by Vinaya Master Shi Sengyou, these writings (by laypeople as well as scholar-monastics) were intended to protect the Buddha Dharma from criticisms by Confucians and Daoists and the political powers of the time. As noted in the translator's introduction, Sengyou believed that "The Way is propagated by people, and the teaching is clarified by literature.""

Contains five scriptural texts that have been especially important and influential in the East Asian Buddhist tradition: ""The Bequeathed Teaching Sutra""; ""The Ullambana Sutra""; ""The Sutra of Forty-two Sections""; ""The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment""; and, ""The Sutra on the Profundity of Filial Love"".

The Ud?navarga is a thematically organised collection of important sayings in verse form used to teach the Buddhadharma. It is a key example of an important genre of Buddhist literature, the best known of which is the Dhammapada.

An anthology of sections from the Buddhist sutras and commentaries. It follows the life of the Shakyamuni Buddha and records some of the teachings and discourses that he delivered throughout his nearly forty-five years of enlightening the world.

Contains five texts by Kukai, including ""On the Differences between the Exoteric and Esoteric Teachings"", and ""The Meaning of Becoming a Buddha in This Very Body"". This volume also includes texts by Kakuban: ""The Illuminating Secret Commentary on the Five Cakras and the Nine Syllables"", and ""The Mitsugonin Confession"".

Kyogyoshinsho presents a collection of 376 passages from 62 sutras, discourses, and commentaries, organized into a coherent and comprehensive explication of the Pure Land teaching.

Translated by John P Keenan, this fourth-century commentary on the Buddhabhumisutra is one of the earliest texts of the Yogacara tradition.

Shobogenzo: The True Dharma-eye Treasury (Taisho Number 2582) is the masterwork of the thirteenth-century Zen master Eihei Dogen, founder of the Soto sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism. This title presents the translation of the ninety-five-chapter edition of the ""Shobogenzo"".

With its descriptions of cosmic events and characters, the Saddharmapundarika-sutra unfolds like a magnificent drama. It offers a combination of doctrine, teachings, stories, and parables, devotional practices, and portraits of the many buddhas and bodhisattvas that inhabit the world of the Lotus Sutra. This text presents a Mahayana vision.

The Sutra of Queen Srimala is an important early Mahayana text. The ""Vimalakirti Sutra"" is a well-known sutra that deals extensively with the doctrines of nonduality and emptiness. This work presents two titles in one volume.

The Treatise on the Elucidation of the Knowable was composed in 1278 for crown prince Zhenjin, second son of the Mongol emperor Qubilai. ""The Cycle of the Formation of the Schismatic Doctrines"" is based on Xuanzang's 7th-century Chinese translation (""Yibuzonglunlun"") of the ""Samayabhedoparacanacakra"". This work presents two titles in one volume.

Contains biographies of three great Mahayana masters, sixty-five Chinese nuns from the fourth to sixth centuries, and an account of the life and travels in South Asia of the fifth-century Chinese monk, Faxian.

Records the life and teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Chan (Zen) Patriarch. This work is an eleventh-century compilation with ancillary materials.

The basic sutra of the Fa-hsian School, The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning expounds the thought of the Yogacara, or Mind-Only School, stating that all phenomena are manifestations of the mind. It belongs to the middle period of Indian Mahayana Buddhism and is considered to have been composed at the start of the 4th century AD.

The Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation is a meditation manual compiled in China in the 4th century C.E. by Kumarajiva, the noted translator of many important Mahayana sutras and philosophical texts. Based on his profound knowledge of both Traditional and Mahayana Buddhism, Kumarajiva introduced Mahayana thought systematically and significantly advanced the Chinese understanding of Buddhism. This clear and well-organized manual describes both Traditional and Mahayanist meditation methods, based on the classification of practitioners into five different types. According to practitioners' inclinations to lust, anger, ignorance, discursive thoughts, or a combination of these, an appropriate remedial practice is prescribed for each type. Though the specific methods vary for Traditional or Mahayana followers, the general framework of practice is largely the same, suggesting that to Kumarajiva, Mahayanist meditation was not separate from Traditional forms of meditation. For the Chinese, the Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation provided much-needed clear guidance for meditation practice and this text exerted significant influence on the subsequent development of Buddhist meditation in China, especially on the Tiantai tradition.

Translated by Thomas Cleary, this collection of 100 koans is highly regarded by the Rinzai School of Zen as a model instructional text.

Contains two titles - ""The Essentials of the Eight Traditions"" that offers concise explanations of the eight major schools of Japanese Buddhism; and ""The Candle of the Latter Dharma"" that discusses the state of monastic practice in the Age of the Latter Dharma.

The fourteenth-century Zen master Te-hui drew on extant works to compile the revised Pai-chang Zen Monastic Regulations under the Yuan Imperial Edict, the text on which this translation by Shohei Ichimura is based.

Contains two works by the founder of the Nichiren Shu school: ""Risshoankokuron"" and ""Kanjinhonzonsho"".

Translated by Sencho Murano, this thirteenth-century text by Nichiren extols the Lotus Sutra and critiques the other schools of Japanese Buddhism active at that time.

Features one of the earliest Mahayana sutras which influenced the development of Prajnaparamita, Pure Land, and Yogacara philosophies. This work expounds the essentials of this meditative practice as the key to attaining Buddhahood.

Presents a fifth-century compilation containing 121 Buddhist parables from the time of Sakyamuni to King Kaniska.