The essentials of the eight traditions The candle of the latter Dharma

Author(s)

• 凝然 ギョウネン
• 最澄 サイチョウ
• Pruden, Leo M.
• Rhodes, Robert

Bibliographic Information

The essentials of the eight traditions . The candle of the latter Dharma

by Gyōnen ; translated from the Japanese by Leo M. Pruden . by Saichō ; translated from the Japanese by Robert Rhodes

（BDK English Tripiṭaka, 107-1, 3）

Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 1994

Other Title

The candle of the latter Dharma

八宗綱要

末法燈明記

Hasshū kōyō

Mappō tōmyōki

Has-shū-kō-yō

Map-pō-tō-myō-ki

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Translated by Leo M. Pruden, ""The Essentials of the Eight Traditions"", composed by Gyonen, offers concise explanations of the eight major schools of Japanese Buddhism then in existence. Translated by Robert Rhodes, ""The Candle of the Latter Dharma"", composed by Saicho, founder of the Japanese Tendai school, discusses the state of monastic practice in the Age of the Latter Dharma (mappo). There are two titles in one volume.

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Details

• NCID: BA25104065
• ISBN:
  • 0962561878
• LCCN: 94066379
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: Berkeley, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 153, 28 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BQ7050
  • NDC8 : 183
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Buddhist sects -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Buddhist sects -- Japan -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Tendai (Sect) -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21594428