The many schools of Buddhist philosophy today may be bewildering for people who want to explore the Buddhist path with clarity. Here Master Nan Huai Chin is a beacon for beginners, leading them from Buddhism's inception in India to its transmission to China and its blossoming throughout the world. For a solid understanding of Buddhism, this book is clearly indispensable reading .
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concise summary of Buddhism,
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This review is from: Basic Buddhism: Exploring Buddhism and Zen (Paperback)
Buddhism is not a religion because it demands cultivation and realization. It is therefore essential to select only writings written by the enlightened; or one can be led astray. Master Nan has been a Buddhist practitioner almost all his life and is believed by many to have seen the path. This book reviews all the basic concepts in Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism. Being written by someone who really knows, it is very different.Like all Master Ma's books, it is a book that you would like to keep for your whole life and then pass onto you children. For those who are interested in this area, you will never regret owning this book.
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This book was recommended to me by a friend in China. It is not light reading, but is an indepth examination of Vedic and annimist roots of Buddhist philosophy. It is a peerless eximination of the evolution of Buddhism as it has developed to guide and shape Chinese thought. Along with Taoism and Confucianism, Buddhism is passively reflected in several thousand years of Chinese cultural development.Great indepth view!
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patriarchal clan society, cultivating realization, temple supervisor, pure congregation, pure rules, hereditary temples, nirvana hall, worldly school, duty distributor, cultivating practice, brahmanical religion, monastic system, cultivate the path, cyclical existence, eminent monks, karmic reward, monastic regulations, ordination certificates, pure conduct, apparent phenomena, new abbot, meditative concentration, more monks, temple property, transcendent wisdom Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shakyamuni Buddha, Chinese Buddhism, Buddha Dharma, Chinese Buddhist, Tantric Buddhism, King Ashoka, Indian Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, King Suddhodana, Master Renshan, Southeast Asia, Five Dynasties, Later Qin, Sri Lanka, Tang Taizong, Book of Changes, Central Asia, Sixth Patriarch, Yongzheng Emperor, Japanese Buddhist, Lotus Sutra, Master Jingwu, Rhys Davids, Amitabha Buddha, Bureau of Sacrifice New!
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- The Book of Rites (Selections) by Confucius on page 226
- Buddhism: In Translations by Henry Clark Warren on page 128
- Sacred Books of the East by F. Max Muller on page 125
- Awakening of Faith by Ashvagosha on page 90
- Sacred Books of the East by Max Muller on page 125
- Jet Li: A Biography by James Robert Parish in Back Matter
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