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Buddhism, the First Millennium |
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Ikeda, Daisaku
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| Date | 1977 |
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| Pages | 172 |
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| Publisher | Kodansha International |
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http://www.kodansha-intl.com/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 小乘佛教=Hinayana; 尸羅=戒=command=Precept=sila=morality=rule=discipline=prohibition; 世親=Vasubandhu; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 佛教經典=Buddhist Scriptures=Sutra; 妙法蓮華經=法華經=The Lotus Sutra=Saddharma-pundarika Sutra; 長行=契經=修多羅=Sutra; 無著=Asanga; 菩薩=Bodhisattva; 漢傳佛教=大乘佛教=北傳佛教=Mahayana Buddhism; 維摩詰居士=Vimalakirti; 論著=Treatise; 龍樹=龍猛=Nagarjuna=kLu-sgrub |
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| Abstract | The history of Buddhism during the centuries following the death of its founder, Shakyamuni, is as fascinating and important as it is problematic. Little documentary evidence remains, but it was in this period that the religion split into its two major branches, the Maha sanghika and the Theravada, and spread beyond India to Central Asia and China in the north and Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia to the south.In Buddhism, the First Millennium, the author pieces together the fabric of events from the distant past with insightful conjecture to bring to the surface the basic pattern of how and why Buddhism came to be a major world religion—spreading into Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan—helped along by exceptional rulers like the Indian king Ashoka and the Greek philosopher-king Menander, and monks and lay believers like Vimalakirti, Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu.Ikeda, a leading Buddhist thinker and founder of the world’s most diverse and engaged lay Buddhist movement, shows the relevance of the teaching and spirit of the Buddha, not only to Indian society as it was then, but to the world and humankind as they are now.
Buddhism, the First Millennium is also available in Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portugese, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Danish, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Serbian. |
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| Table of contents | Translator’s Note
THE FORMATION OF THE BUDDHIST CANON
The First Council, The Recitation of the Words of the Buddha, The Teachings of Great Religious Leaders
THE THERAVADA AND THE MAHASANGHIKA
The Background of the Second Council, The Origins of the Schism, The Movement to Restore the Original Meaning of Buddhism
KING ASHOKA
The King of Monarchs, Absolute Pacifism in Government, Relations between the State and Religion
QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA
A Greek Philosopher-King, The Wisdom of Nagasena, The Debate of Wise Men and of Kings
CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
The Turning Point in East-West Relations, Buddhism and Christianity for a World Religion
THE RISE OF MAHAYANA BUDDHISM
Origins of the Mahayana Movement, Differences between the Mahayana and Hinayana Schools, The Buddhist Renaissance
VIMALAKIRTI AND THE IDEAL OF THE LAY BELIEVER
Vimalakirti, The Building of a Buddha Land, How the Bodhisattva Benefits Others, The Doctrine of the Mysterious
THE FORMATION OF THE LOTUS SUTRA
The Preaching of the Dharma on Vulture Peak, The Shravaka Disciple and the Mahayana Bodhisattva, The Spread of Buddhism after Shakyamuni’s Death
THE SPIRIT OF THE LOTUS SUTRA
Practitioners of the Lotus Sutra, The Spirit of the Mahayana Buddhists, The Concept of the Buddha in the Lotus Sutra
NAGARJUNA AND VASUBANDHU
Nagarjuna’s Search for the Mahayana, The Theories of the Middle Doctrine and the Void, The Path of Asanga and Vasubandhu, The Kusha and Consciousness-only Treatises
Bibliography
Glossary
Index |
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| ISBN | 0870113216 (hc) |
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| Hits | 1209 |
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| Created date | 2008.08.22 |
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| Modified date | 2014.05.20 |
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