Gyōnen’s Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries
Leiden: (2018). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii, 182pp. Index, bibliography & glossary. Pictorial buckram, lavender spine lettered in white & black A near fine, but ex-library copy with a minimal rubber library stamp on title page and at bottom edge of text block.
Gyōnen’s Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries is the first English translation of this work and a new assessment of it. Gyōnen (1240-1321) has been recognized for establishing a methodology for the study of Buddhism that would come to dominate Japan. The three countries Gyōnen considers are India, China and Japan. Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun describe Gyōnen’s innovative doctrinal classification system (panjiao) for the first time and compare it to other panjiao systems. They argue that Gyōnen’s arrangement and what he chose to exclude served political purposes in the Kamakura period, and thus engage current scholarship on the construction of Japanese Buddhism. (Publisher)
Contents: Part I.A sketch of the transmission of the Buddha Dharma and related issues.; Introduction: Gyōnen and the organizational structure of his text --; Indian foundations and Chinese development of the Buddha Dharma --; Korean contributions to Japanese Buddhism --; Japanese development of the Buddha Dharma.; Part 2. Translation of Gyōnen's "The Narrative History of Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries".; Fascicle one --; Fascicle two --; Fascicle three.
Volume 159 of Brill's "Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions." near fine. Item #52843
ISBN: 9789004370388
Price: $95.00