Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism (World Philosophies) - Softcover

Ziporyn, Brook A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025302112X ISBN 13: 9780253021120

Publisher: S159 - INDIANA UNIV PR, 2016

Synopsis

Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to draw out its implications for ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Ziporyn explains Tiantai’s unlikely roots, its positions of extreme affirmation and rejection, its religious skepticism and embrace of religious myth, and its view of human consciousness. Ziporyn reveals the profound insights of Tiantai Buddhism while stimulating philosophical reflection on its unexpected effects.

About this title

About the Author:

Brook A. Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

Review:

"Introduces new stories and expressions of rather arcane and often scholastic teachings, and succeeds in making the subject matter interesting and relevant, for the general reader as well as the specialist."

(Paul Swanson, author of Foundations of T'ien-T'ai Philosophy: The Flowering of the Two Truths Theory in Chinese Bu)

About this edition

• Publisher: S159 - INDIANA UNIV PR
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 025302112X
• ISBN 13: 9780253021120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336