Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet

by Georgios T. Halkias

Book Overview

With an annotated English translation and critical analysis of the Orgyan-gling gold manuscript of the short Sukhāvativyūha-sūtra

Pure Land Buddhism as a whole has received comparatively little attention in Western studies on Buddhism despite the importance of "buddha-fields" (pure lands) for the growth and expression of Mahāyāna Buddhism. In this first religious history of Tibetan Pure Land literature, Georgios...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824835905
• ISBN13: 9780824835903
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"