Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti A Mahyna Scripture

Name: Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti A Mahyna Scripture
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ISBN: 9780271012094

ISBN-10: 0271012099

ISBN-13: 9780271012094

Edition: 1976

Authors: Robert A. F. Thurman

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This book presents the major teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this Sūtra, called the "jewel of the Mahāyāna Sūtras," has enjoyed immense popularity among Mahāyāna Buddhists in India, central and southeast Asia, Japan, and especially China, where its incidents were the basis for a style in art and literature prevalent during several centuries.Robert Thurman's translation makes available in relatively nontechnical English the Tibetan version of this key Buddhist scripture, previously known to the English-speaking world only through translations from Chinese texts. The Tibetan version is generally conceded to be more faithful to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.990