Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese BuddhismUniversity of Hawaii Press, 28. feb. 2007 - 376 sider Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground. |
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SelfImmolation in Early Medieval China | 19 |
The Lotus Sutra AutoCremation | 54 |
of SelfImmolation | 78 |
CHAPTER 4 | 104 |
Conclusion | 195 |
APPENDIX 1 | 203 |
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Account Appended attain auto-cremation biogra bodhisattva Buddha burn his body century Chan master Chang'an chanting Chapter Chen Jinhua Chinese Buddhist collection compiled cremation dāna Daodu Daoxuan death dharma disciples discussed donation dynasty Eminent Monks emperor example Fayuan zhulin fingers firewood gaoseng zhuan 40 Gernet Hangzhou Huayan jing Huijiao Huiyi immolation incense jātaka later Liang Liuxue seng zhuan Lotus Sutra Mahāyāna Mañjuśrī Medicine King medieval China Ming miracles monastery monastic monk mountain nianfo offering pagoda precepts present-day prince Pure Land recited relics religious samādhi samgha samsāra śarīra scripture secular self-immolation Sengfu Sengyai SGSZ 23 shan Shishi liutie 12 Song gaoseng zhuan sources story stūpa Sūtra Tang teachings Tiantai tion Tonggui ji translated Vinaya Wang Wang Shichong Wu-Yue Wutai shan XGSZ 27 Xin xu gaoseng xu gaoseng zhuan Yanshou Yuan Zanning Zanning's Zhongnan Zhou zhuan 9 Zhuangzi zhuzi suoyin Zizhi tongjian