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How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs)
Jungnok Park
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Hardcover. The book examines how the Chinese made use of raw material imported from India and added some seasoningsA" peculiar to China and developed their own recipesA" about how to construct the ideas of Buddhism. Series: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; HRE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528. Series: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs. 272 pages. The book examines how the Chinese made use of raw material imported from India and added some seasoningsA" peculiar to China and developed their own recipesA" about how to construct the ideas of Buddhism. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; HRE. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 24. Weight: 528.
Why did some Buddhist translators in China interpolate terms designating an agent which did not appear in the original texts? The Chinese made use of raw material imported from India; however, they added some seasoningsA" peculiar to China and developed their own recipesA" about how to construct the ideas of Buddhism. While Indian Buddhists constructed their ideas of self by means of empiricism, anti-Brahmanism and analytic reasoning, the Chinese Buddhists constructed their ideas of self by means of non-analytic insights, utilising pre-established epistemology and cosmogony. Furthermore, many of the basic renderings had specific implications that were peculiar to ... Read more
Why did some Buddhist translators in China interpolate terms designating an agent which did not appear in the original texts? The Chinese made use of raw material imported from India; however, they added some seasoningsA" peculiar to China and developed their own recipesA" about how to construct the ideas of Buddhism. While Indian Buddhists constructed their ideas of self by means of empiricism, anti-Brahmanism and analytic reasoning, the Chinese Buddhists constructed their ideas of self by means of non-analytic insights, utilising pre-established epistemology and cosmogony. Furthermore, many of the basic renderings had specific implications that were peculiar to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845539962
SKU
V9781845539962
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Ref
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About Jungnok Park
Jungnok Park (1971-2008) was a Korean student of outstanding intelligence and originality. He began his university education only after spending 10 years (1989-1999) as a Buddhist monk. He had a brilliant career in the Dept. of Philosophy at Seoul National University; his MA thesis was on Nirvana and Buddhist Ethics. In 2003 he came to Wolfson College, ... Read more
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