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Item Code: IDC192by Richard H. RobinsonHardcover (Edition: 1978)Motilal Banarsidas Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 0-89684-038-7 Size: 8.8" X 5.8" Pages: 358 |
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times since 2nd Oct, 2008This book gives a descriptive analysis of specific Madhyamika texts. It compares the ideology of Kumarajiva (a translator of the four Madhyamika treatises 400 A.D.) with the ideologies of the three Chinese contemporaries - HuiYuan, Seng-Jui and Seng-Chao. It envisages an intercultural transmission of religious and philosophical ideas from India to China
In eight chapters along with 10 documents it details the philosophy, ideology, comparison, 'the Lineage of the old Treatise Sect' and 'the Chief Idea of the Mahayana.'
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
| Document 1 | Astasahasrika Passages that Parallel the Middle Stanzas |
| Document 2 | The Chief Ideas of the Mahayana |
| Part I: | The Four Marks |
| Part II: | Suchness, Dharma-nature, and Reality-limit |
| Part III: | Existence of Real Dharmas |
| Part IV: | The Emptiness of Division into Parts |
| Document 3 | Spirit Does Not Perish |
| Document 4 | Preface to the Abridged Great Perfection of Wisdom Treatise |
| Document 5 | Preface to the Middle Treatise |
| Document 6 | Preface to the Twelve Topic Treatise |
| Document 7 | Preface to the Hundred Treatise |
| Document 8 | Prajna Has No Knowing |
| Document 9 | Emptiness of the Non-Absolute |
| Document 10 | Things Do Not Shift |
Notes
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