The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism

by Garma C.C. Chang

Book Overview

The Hwa Yen school of Mahayana Buddhism bloomed in China in the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Today many scholars regard its doctrines of Emptiness, Totality, and Mind-Only as the crown of Buddhist thought and as a useful and unique philosophical system and explanation of man, world, and life as intuitively experienced in Zen practice. For the first time in any Western language Garma Chang explains and exemplifies these doctrines with references to both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271011424
• ISBN13: 9780271011424
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"