Cultivating Original Enlightenment : : Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong Non).

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• TeilnehmendeR: Buswell, Robert E.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Wonhyo
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

Wŏnhyo (617-686) is the dominant figure in the history of Korean Buddhism and one of the most influential thinkers in the Korean philosophical tradition. Koreans know Wŏnhyo in his various roles as Buddhist mystic, miracle worker, social iconoclast, religious proselytist, and cultural hero. Above all else, Wŏnhyo was an innovative thinker and prolific writer, whose works cover the gamut of Indian and Sinitic Buddhist materials: Some one hundred treatises and commentaries are attributed to him, twenty-three of which are extant today. Wŏnhyo's importance is not limited to the peninsula, however. His writings were widely read in China and Japan, and his influence on the overall development of East Asian Mahâyâna thought is significant, particularly in relation to the Huayan, Chan, and Pure Land schools.In Cultivating Original Enlightenment, the first volume in The International Association of Wŏnhyo Studies' Collected Works of Wŏnhyo series, Robert E. Buswell Jr. translates Wŏnhyo's longest and culminating work, the Exposition of the Vajrasamâdhi-Sûtra (Kŭmgang Sammaegyŏng Non). Wŏnhyo here brings to bear all the tools acquired throughout a lifetime of scholarship and meditation to the explication of a scripture that has a startling connection to the Korean Buddhist tradition. In his treatise, Wŏnhyo examines the crucial question of how enlightenment can be turned from a tantalizing prospect into a palpable reality that manifests itself in all activities.Introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- PART 1 :Study -- I. Contemplative Practice in the Exposition of the Vajrasamâdhi-Sûtra -- II. The Writing of the Exposition -- III. The Exposition as Commentary -- PART 2 :Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamâdhi-Sûtra: An Annotated Translation -- Part One: A Statement of Its Main Idea -- Part Two: An Analysis of the Themes of the Sûtra -- Part Three: An Explication of the Title -- Part Four: An Exegesis of the Text -- Section One: Prologue -- Section Two: Main Body, the Sequential Elucidation of Contemplation Practice -- Second Division of Contemplation Practice: Extinguishing the Mind Subject to Production in Order to Explain the Practice of Nonproduction -- Third Division of Contemplation Practice: The Inspiration of Original Enlightenment -- Fourth Division of Contemplation Practice: Abandoning the Spurious to Access Reality -- Fifth Division of Contemplation Practice: Sanctified Practices Emerge from the Voidness of the True Nature -- Sixth Division of Contemplation Practice: Immeasurable Dharmas Access the Tathâgatagarbha -- Section Three (A): Dhâraÿî [Codes] and Section Three (B): Dissemination -- Appendix A Schematic Outline of Wõnhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamâdhi-Sûtra -- Notes -- Glossary of Sinitic Logographs -- Bibliography -- Index