The purpose of the conference was to investigate the evolution of the Bodhisattva doctrine in the country of its origin and within countries to which Mahayana Buddhism has spread. [...] In order to investigate what current research in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese materials could contribute to the study of the Bodhisattva doctrine, the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary planned a conference around the theme of the Bodhisattva. [...] On the basis of such materials as the images of princely beings found in Gandharan and Mathuran art, the inscriptions of the Taxila silver scroll and on images from Sarnath, the longer Sukhavatlvyuha, and the twenty-fourth chapter of the Saddhavmapundarlka, Basham suggests that the Bodhisattva doctrine was in full force in at least some Buddhist circles by the first century of the Christian era at [...] He also shows how the development of the heavenly Bodhisattva influenced changes in the view of the transfer of merits which was widespread as early as the beginning of the Christian era. [...] So strong was the influence of the Kiian-yin worship on the Chinese that the image of the helpful and compassionate being is depicted in popular operas performed in the present century.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 294.3/422
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Papers presented at the Calgary Buddhism Conference, Sept. 18-21, 1978, sponsored by the Religious Studies Dept., Faculty of Humanities, University of Calgary Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780889207486 0919812120
- LCCN
- BQ4293
- LCCN Item number
- B63 1981eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxi, 272 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00327007 (OCoLC)244765716 (CaOOCEL)402515
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
- PREFACE 6
- THE CONTRIBUTORS 8
- INTRODUCTION 12
- INAUGURAL ADDRESS 24
- The Relevance of the Bodhisattva Concept for Today 24
- INDIA 42
- The Evolution of the Concept of the Bodhisattva 42
- The Bodhisattva Returns to This World 84
- TIBET 104
- Influence of the Bodhisattva Doctrine on Tibetan Political History 104
- The View of Bodhicitta in Tibetan Buddhism 118
- Bodhisattva - The Ethical Phase in Evolution 134
- CHINA 148
- The Bodhisattva Idea in Chinese Literature: Typology and Significance 148
- The Bodhisattva Concept: A Study of the Chinese Buddhist Canon 176
- JAPAN 188
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine as Conceived and Developed by the Founders of the New Sects in the Heian and Kamakura Periods 188
- Japan's New Religions (1945-65): Secularization or Spiritualization? 216
- The Mykonin: Japan's Representation of the Bodhisattva 246
- INDEX 262
- A 262
- B 263
- C 266
- D 268
- E 270
- F 271
- G 273
- H 273
- I 274
- J 275
- K 276
- L 277
- M 278
- N 281
- O 282
- P 282
- Q 285
- R 285
- S 287
- T 291
- U 293
- V 293
- W 294
- Y 295
- Z 295
