Cultivating original enlightenment : Wŏnhyo's exposition of the Vajrasamādhi-sūtra (Kŭmgang sammaegyŏng non)
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Cultivating original enlightenment : Wŏnhyo's exposition of the Vajrasamādhi-sūtra (Kŭmgang sammaegyŏng non)
(The International Association of Wŏnhyo Studies' collected works of Wŏnhyo, v. 1)
University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2007
- : hardcover : alk. paper
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
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  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
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  Kumamoto
  Oita
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  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Translated from the Korean
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-409) and index
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Wonhyo (617-686) is the dominant figure in the history of Korean Buddhism and one of the most influential thinkers in the Korean philosophical tradition. Koreans know Wonhyo in his various roles as Buddhist mystic, miracle worker, social iconoclast, religious proselytist, and cultural hero. Above all else, Wonhyo was an innovative thinker and prolific writer, whose works cover the gamut of Indian and Sinitic Buddhist materials: Some one hundred treatises and commentaries are attributed to him, twenty-three of which are extant today. Wonhyo's importance is not limited to the peninsula, however. His writings were widely read in China and japan, and his influence on the overall development of East Asian Mahayana thought is significant, particularly in relation to the Huayan, Chan, and Pure Land schools. In "Cultivating Original Enlightenment", the first volume in The International Association of Wonhyo Studies' "Collected Works of Wonhyo" series, Robert E. Buswell Jr. translates Wonhyo's longest and culminating work, the "Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra" ("Kumgang Sammaegyong Non").
Wonhyo here brings to bear all the tools acquired throughout a lifetime of scholarship and meditation to the explication of a scripture that has a startling connection to the Korean Buddhist tradition. In his treatise, Wonhyo examines the crucial question of how enlightenment can be turned from a tantalizing prospect into a palpable reality that manifests itself in all activities.
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