
By Brook A. Ziporyn
ISBN-10: 0253021081
ISBN-13: 9780253021083
ISBN-10: 025302112X
ISBN-13: 9780253021120
Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and leading edge interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to develop into essentially the most whole, systematic, and influential faculties of philosophical concept constructed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn places Tiantai into discussion with glossy philosophical matters to attract out its implications for ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Ziporyn explains Tiantai’s not likely roots, its positions of utmost confirmation and rejection, its non secular skepticism and include of spiritual fable, and its view of human recognition. Ziporyn finds the profound insights of Tiantai Buddhism whereas stimulating philosophical mirrored image on its unforeseen effects.
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