Translating Totality in Parts

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Translating Totality in Parts

Chengguan’s Commentaries and Subcommentaries to the Avatamska Sutra

East Asian and Indian philosophy Philosophy of religion History of religion Buddhism Buddhist life and practice Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings

Author: Guo Cheen

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Language: English

Published by: University Press of America

Published on: 25th March 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 153 pages

ISBN: 9780761863106


Translating Totality in Parts

Offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan’s most revered masterpieces.

With this book, Chengguan’s Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra and The Meanings Proclaimed in the Subcommentaries Accompanying the Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra are finally brought to contemporary Western audiences.

Translating Totality in Parts allows Western readers to experience Chengguan’s important contributions to the religious and philosophical theory of the Huayan and Buddhism in China.

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