| Date | 1988 |
| Publish_location | Honolulu |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Record_type | Book |
| Series | Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 6 |
| Shelf | Director's Office |
| Call Number | BQ4175.B83 1988 |
| Description | viii, 298 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note | Buddhist hermeneutics / edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Essays originally presented at a conference held at the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values in Los Angeles in the spring of 1984. Includes bibliographies and index. Contents: Assessment of textual interpretation in Buddhism / Étienne Lamotte -- The gradual path as a hermeneutical approach to Dhamma / George D. Bond -- On the interpretation of the Mahāyāna Sūtras / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- Killing, lying, stealing, and adultery: a problem of interpretation in the Tantras / Michael M. Broido -- Vajra hermeneutics / Robert A.F. Thurman -- Mi-pham's theory of interpretation / Matthew Kapstein -- Hermeneutical phases in Chinese Buddhism / David W. Chappell -- What happened to the "perfect teaching"?: another look at Hua-yen Buddhist hermeneutics / Peter N. Gregory -- Ch’an hermeneutics: a Korean view / Robert E. Buswell, Jr. -- Truth words: the basis of Kūkai's theory of interpretation / Thomas P. Kasulis -- Shinran's proofs of true Buddhism / Roger Tashi Corless. |
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| Subject | Buddhism--Doctrines Hermeneutics--Religious aspects--Buddhism |
| Series | foo 102 |
| ISBN | 87-30175 |
| LCCN | 0824811615 |
