Description
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.
Author: Brook A. Ziporyn
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: 06/01/2016
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780253021120
ISBN10: 025302112X
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Buddhist
- Religion | Buddhism | General (see also Philosophy | Buddhist)
About the Author
Brook A. Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.