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Metaphors for interdependence : Fazang's Buddhist metaphysics / Nicholaos Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Nicholaos, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fazang, 643-712.
- Fazang.
- Hua yan Buddhism--China--History.
- Hua yan Buddhism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Language Note:
- English with some Chinese.
- Summary:
- Fazang was a Buddhist philosopher famous for using metaphors to explain why everything is interdependent. His teachings are influential for Neo-Confucianism as well as the contemporary movements of deep ecology and engaged Buddhism. This book combines analysis and exegesis to make a case for an accessible interpretation of Fazang's teachings.
- Contents:
- Fazang's roar
- Fazang's vision
- Conceptualizing causality
- Interpreting mutuality
- Attending to aspects
- Indra's net
- Counting coins
- Building unity
- Fazang's project.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 10, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-780722-4
- 0-19-780720-8
- 0-19-780721-6
- OCLC:
- 1505991152
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