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Sino-Indian Studies 1949

1949

T'ang-Ifsi-Yu-Chi ( Records of the Countries West of T'ang ) and his disciple Hui Li's biography of him of the title of Ta-Tzu-En-ssu-San-TsanFa-Shih-Chuan ( Records of the Tripitaka-Master of the Great Compassion Monastery ) Both books contain a detailed and clear picture of the conditions of India in general and those of the reign of Harsha in particular in respect of culture education cale [...] Viewed in the light of historical evolution the idea of he Land of the Amitabha is a part of the dhyana methodology ; and the very title as well as the content of such a text as the Amitayur-dhyana-sutra is suggestive of this interpretation. [...] But how could all their apparent theoretical differences and inconsistencies and contradictions be explained ? As early as the 5th century Hui-kuan a fellow-student of Tao-sheng suggested the idea of arranging the various sutras as the products of various periods in the life of the Buddha attributing the Hinayana Agamas to the first period of his teaching activity the Parinirvana Sutras to the [...] Nagarjuna was the 13th whom Chih-kai called his great-great-grandfather." This claim gave to the T'ien-t'ai the prestige of being the legitimate movement for the restoration and revival of the Mahayana system which according to the Fu fa-ts'ang-chuan had died out with the persecution and murder of the 23rd Apostle in Kashinere. [...] The greatness of his school lies in the emphatic recognition of the function of intellectual emancipation as the alpha and omega of the new Zennism.
humanities general

Authors

Prabhat Kumar Mukherjee

Pages
66
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120242
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii P. C. Bagchi view
Chinese Sources for Indian History
89-98 Lo Chia-luen view
Development of Zen Buddhism in China
99-126 Hu Shih view
On the Sanskrit Equivalent Of Fo-T’u-Teng
127-130 Walter Liebenthal view
On the Word “Cittavarana”
131-139 Pai Hui view
Shin-Wei-She-Lun of Shi-Li
140-150 Shu Hu view
Backmatter
i-i P. C. Bagchi view

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