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Burning for the Buddha

Name: Burning for the Buddha
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ISBN: 9780824861735

Von Benn, James A.

Herausgegeben von University of Hawaii Press

English 377 Seiten 2007 ISBN 9780824861735

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<i>Burning for the Buddha</i> is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the <i>Lotus Sutra</i> played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.