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Foundations of Ethics and Practice in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism |
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Author |
Jones, Charles B.
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Source |
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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Volume | v.10 |
Date | 2003 |
Pages | 1 - 20 |
Publisher | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
Publisher Url |
https://history.la.psu.edu/
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Location | University Park, PA, US |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | Charles B. Jones, The Catholic University of America |
Keyword | Pure Land=淨土; 輪迴=轉世=Reincarnation=Rebirth=Samsara; 戒律=Precepts=Vinaya=Sila; 天台; 迴向 |
Abstract | The primary goal of this project was to find a Chinese text that took on the relationship between human religious activity and the saving power of Amitābha in a systematic way. Alas, such a text has so far eluded me. However, by looking at several texts, I have been able to find hints and indications here and there which, added together, constitute a fairly complete and consistent soteriological scheme that relates self-power to other-power. Fully aware of the hermeneutical dangers one faces in collating proof-texts from works spanning greatly-separated times and places around the Chinese empire, I will venture to lay it out as best I can with some confidence that it indeed represents a characteristically Chinese way of approaching the relationship of self-power and other-power, human striving and the Buddha’s original vow-power. I will do this by focusing on a particular arena of human religious activity: ethics and precepts, “ethics” indicating general norms of human behavior, and “precepts” meaning specific vows taken in ritual contexts. |
Table of contents | 1.Defining the Problem 2 2.The Disjunction of Precepts and Rebirth in the Pure Land 4 3.Establishing a Basis for a Pure Land Ethic 7 4.Conclusion 14 Works Cited 16 Endnote 18
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ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
Hits | 964 |
Created date | 2003.10.17
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Modified date | 2017.07.11 |

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