Emptiness and omnipresence : an essential introduction to Tiantai Buddhism

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Author:

Ziporyn, Brook, 1964- author.

ISBN:

9780253021120

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Publication Information:

Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Physical Description:

xiii, 317 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

World philosophies

Language:

English

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
1 Just Here Is the End of Suffering: Letting Suffering Be in Early Buddhism	p. 3
1 Rafts and Arrows: Tie Two Truths in Pre-Tiantai Buddhism	p. 23
3 Neither Thus nor Otherwise: Mahayana Approaches to Emptiness	p. 37
4 Buddha-Nature and Original Enlightenment	p. 54
5 How to Not Know What You're Doing: Introduction to the Lotus Sutra	p. 68
6 The New Middle Way: Highlights of the Lotus Sutra in Tiantai Context	p. 86
7 The Interpervasion of All Points of View: From the Lotus Sutra to Tiantai	p. 117
8 Tiantai: The Multiverse as You	p. 143
9 Experiencing Tiantai: Experiments with Tiantai Practice	p. 178
10 Tiantai Ethics and the Worst-Case Scenario	p. 235
Epilogue: So Far and Yet So Close	p. 273
Notes	p. 287
Bibliography and Suggested Reading	p. 303
Index	p. 309