Emptiness and omnipresence : an essential introduction to Tiantai Buddhism / Brook A. Ziporyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziporyn, Brook, 1964- author.

Series:

World philosophies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tiantai Buddhism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to draw out its implications for ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Ziporyn explains Tiantai's unlikely roots, its positions of extreme affirmation and rejection, its religious skepticism and embrace of religious myth, and its view of human consciousness. Ziporyn reveals the profound insights of Tiantai Buddhism while stimulating philosophical reflection on its unexpected effects. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Just Here Is the End of Suffering: Letting Suffering Be in Early Buddhism 3

1 Rafts and Arrows: Tie Two Truths in Pre-Tiantai Buddhism 23

3 Neither Thus nor Otherwise: Mahayana Approaches to Emptiness 37

4 Buddha-Nature and Original Enlightenment 54

5 How to Not Know What You're Doing: Introduction to the Lotus Sutra 68

6 The New Middle Way: Highlights of the Lotus Sutra in Tiantai Context 86

7 The Interpervasion of All Points of View: From the Lotus Sutra to Tiantai 117

8 Tiantai: The Multiverse as You 143

9 Experiencing Tiantai: Experiments with Tiantai Practice 178

10 Tiantai Ethics and the Worst-Case Scenario 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253021083

0253021081

9780253021120

025302112X

OCLC:

919341873