Lay Buddhism and Spirituality: From Vimalakirti to the Nenbutsu Masters

by Michael Pye

Book Overview

Early issues of The Eastern Buddhist contain short translations from various Buddhist texts, some of them quite important and all of considerable interest. Since they are set unobtrusively between modern statements and arguments about the nature of Buddhism, and in any case are difficult to locate, they have often gone unnoticed by students. Assembled here is a selection of those texts which have stood the test of time. Drawn from Sanskrit, Chinese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908049154
• ISBN13: 9781908049155
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"