Buddhist hermeneutics / edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Contributor(s): Lopez, Donald S., Jr
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TextSeries: Studies in East Asian Buddhism: no. 6.Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1992Copyright date: ©1988Edition: Paperback editionDescription: viii, 298 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0824814479 (pbk.)Subject(s): Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism | Buddhism -- DoctrinesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BQ4175 .B83 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903034417 |
Essays originally presented at a conference held at the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values in Los Angeles in the spring of 1984.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Assessment of textual interpretation in Buddhism / Étienne Lamotte -- The gradual path as a hermeneutical approach to the Dhamma / George D. Bond -- On the interpretation of the Mahāyāna Sūtras / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- Killing, lying, stealing, and adultery: a problem of interpretation in the Tantras / Michael M. Broido -- Vajra hermeneutics / Robert A. F. Thurman -- Mi-pham's theory of interpretation / Matthew Kapstein -- Hermeneutical phases in Chinese Buddhism / David W. Chappell -- What happened to the "perfect teaching"? Another look at Hua-yen Buddhist hermeneutics / Peter N. Gregory -- Ch'an hermeneutics: a Korean view / Robert E. Buswell, Jr. -- Truth words: the basis of Kūkai's theory of interpretation / Thomas P. Kasulis -- Shinran's proofs of true Buddhism / Roger Tashi Corless.