The first complete translation of China's earliest and most influential monastic code.

中译本：佛陀的女儿：南传佛教大修行人的传奇心灵 （此中译本有一些翻译错误，建议阅读英文原版） 译者： 周和君 出版社：台湾橡树林 初版日期：2003年09月09日 蒂帕嬷(Dipa Ma, 1911-1989)是当代南传上座部佛教传统中有大成就的一位女性阿罗汉, 她对于现代内观禅修界, 和西方南传佛教界影响深远。印度现代第一个内观禅修中心的创始人, 尊敬的拉斯特帕拉长老(Venerable Rastrapala Mahathera )是她的学生, 当今美国的佛教禅修导师杰克.康费尔德(Jack Kornfield), 莎伦.萨尔斯堡(Sharon Salzberg), 约瑟夫. 葛斯坦(Joseph Goldstein)也都是她的弟子。 蒂帕嬷的内观传承来自于缅甸的马哈希西亚多。

Between 1850 and 1966, tens of thousands of Buddhist sacred sites in China were destroyed, victims of targeted destruction, accidental damage, or simply neglect. During the same period, however, many of these sites were reconstructed, a process that involved both rebuilding material structures and reviving religious communities. The conventionally accepted narrative of Chinese ...(展开全部)

While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism...(展开全部)

Recent years have seen heightened interest in the ritual, juridical, and generallypractical aspects of the Buddhist tradition. The contributions to Rules ofEngagement build on this trend while venturing beyond the established boundariesof discourse in specialized academic disciplines, presenting state-of-the-artresearch on the vinaya in all of its breadth and depth. They do so ...(展开全部)

This comprehensive study explores the dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture in China and its Asian neighbors. It examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically within multicultural contexts related to other cultural products, and as objects on the move, transmitted across a sprawling web of transnational...(展开全部)