Visions of Awakening Space and Time : Dogen and the Lotus Sutra: Dogen and the Lotus SutraOxford University Press, USA, 11 de maig 2007 - 208 pàgines As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, which currently enjoys increasing popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most important Buddhist scripture in East Asia, contains a famous story about bodhisattvas (enlightening beings) who emerge from under the earth to preserve and expound the Lotus teaching in the distant future. The story reveals that the Buddha only appears to pass away, but actually has been practicing, and will continue to do so, over an inconceivably long life span. Leighton traces commentaries on the Lotus Sutra from a range of key East Asian Buddhist thinkers, including Daosheng, Zhiyi, Zhanran, Saigyo, Myoe, Nichiren, Hakuin, and Ryokan. But his main focus is Eihei Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Soto Zen founder who imported Zen from China, and whose profuse, provocative, and poetic writings are important to the modern expansion of Buddhism to the West. Dogen's use of this sutra expresses the critical role of Mahayana vision and imagination as the context of Zen teaching, and his interpretations of this story furthermore reveal his dynamic worldview of the earth, space, and time themselves as vital agents of spiritual awakening. Leighton argues that Dogen uses the images and metaphors in this story to express his own religious worldview, in which earth, space, and time are lively agents in the bodhisattva project. Broader awareness of Dogen's worldview and its implications, says Leighton, can illuminate the possibilities for contemporary approaches to primary Mahayana concepts and practices. |
Continguts
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The Essence of Fascism | 13 |
Fascist Doctrine | 21 |
The Leaders | 27 |
The State and the Party | 35 |
Fascism and the Church | 41 |
Terror | 50 |
Propaganda | 56 |
Neofascist Ideology | 93 |
Some Case Studies | 115 |
An Alternative Way of Life | 121 |
The Fear of Immigrants | 131 |
Clerical Fascism and the Third World | 147 |
The Origins of Islamic Fundamentalism | 164 |
Russia | 178 |
Eastern Europe | 197 |
Achievements | 65 |
The Joys of Daily Life | 72 |
The Lessons of Fascism | 83 |
The Prospects of Fascism | 217 |
Notes | 237 |
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Pàgina v - ... dwellings in the rock, and was further soothed and affected by the sight of a soldier's cat walking up a elected plank into a high loophole, designed for mus-catry, as serene as Wisdom herself, and with a gracefully waving motion of her tail, as if her ways were ways of pleasantness and all her paths were peace.
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