Paths to Liberation : : The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought / / ed. by Robert M. Gimello, Robert E. Buswell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bielefeldt, Carl,; Burford, Grace G.,; Buswell Jr., Robert E.,; Cox, Collett,; Gimello, Robert M.,; Groner, Paul,; Hopkins, Jeffrey,; Jaini, Padmanabh S.,; Kapstein, Matthew,; Klein, Anne C.,; Lopez Jr, Donald S.,; McRae, John R.,; Yoshihide, Yoshizu,
• HerausgeberIn: Buswell, Robert E.,; Gimello, Robert M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Theravāda Buddhist Soteriology and the Paradox of Desire -- Attainment through Abandonment: The Sarvāstivādin Path of Removing Defilements -- The Path to Perdition: The Wholesome Roots and Their Eradication -- On the Ignorance of the Arhat -- Paths Terminable and Interminable -- The Illusion of Spiritual Progress: Remarks on Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Soteriology -- A Tibetan Perspective on the Nature of Spiritual Experience -- Mental Concentration and the Unconditioned: A Buddhist Case for Unmediated Experience The Relation between Chinese Buddhist History and Soteriology -- Encounter Dialogue and the Transformation of the Spiritual Path in Chinese Ch'an -- Mārga and Culture: Learning, Letters, and Liberation in Northern Sung Ch'an -- Shortening the Path: Early Tendai Interpretations of the Realization of Buddhahood with This Very Body (Sokushin Jobutsu) -- No-Mind and Sudden Awakening: Thoughts on the Soteriology of a Kamakura Zen Text -- Index -- Contributors