Edkins Chinese Buddhism

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0772-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 492 Seiten

A thoroughly descriptive account of Chinese Buddhism that describes its history and different schools. The author uses Buddhist literature to describe the faith’s moral system, calendar, images, procession, and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edkins, Joseph

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface to Second Addition

- Preface

- Introduction

- A Life of Buddha

- The Patriarchs of Northern Buddhists

- Sketches of the History of Buddhism in China

- The Schools of Chinese Buddhism

- On Chi-K'ai and the T'ien-T'ai School of Buddhism

- The Buddhist Moral System

- The Buddhist Calendar

- Relation of Buddhism to the Older Hindoo Mythology

- The Buddhist Universe

- The Extended Universe of Northern Buddhists

- Buddhist Images and Image-Worship

- Monasteries at P'u-To

- Buddhist Processions, Associations, Pilgrimages, and Ceremonies for the Dead

- Buddhist Literature

- The Leng-Yen-King - First Chapters

- The Ekashloka Shastra

- Effects of Buddhism on the the Philosophy of the Sung Dynasty

- Feng-Shui; Or, The Wind and Water Superstition of the Chinese

- Buddhist Phraseology in Relation to Christian Teaching

- Notice of the Wu-Wei-Kiau, A Reformed Buddhist Sect

- Buddhism And Tauism in Their Popular Aspects

- On the Use of Sanscrit by the Chinese Buddhists

- Books and Papers that May Be Consulted For the Study of Chinese Buddhism