Chao Lun - The Treatises of Seng-chao - A Translation with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by Walter Liebenthal

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A 1" chip at head of dust-jacket spine. Some rubbing, tears, and stains to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Second edition, revised. An edition of 1,000 copies. xli, [1], 152, [2], ix, [3 (blank)] pages. Black boards with gilt lettering and characters on spine. Page dimensions: 235 x 149mm. Text and footnotes in English. Includes lengthy bibliography. Mahayana Buddhism. "Had India the secret passage to the centre of the universe? Seng-chao believed it did and, in his first treatise, he sought to describe the indescribable. Later his early enthusiasm to learn and penetrte the intricacies of Indian Buddhist thought was tranformed into an ardent study of the Buddhist doctrine. Kumarajiva, who came to China in A.D. 401, introduced to Seng-chao the Middle Path, a method of dealing with the transcendent, which held the mind of man far more and far longer than any other doctrine of Eastern or Western philosophy. The process of this study has an almost modern touch as Seng-chao picks out definite problems, those of the inadequacy of language to describe transcendental matters, of time and of causality." - from dust-jacket blurb.

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Título

Chao Lun - The Treatises of Seng-chao - A Translation with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by Walter Liebenthal

Editor

Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong

Fecha de publicación

1968

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Very Good-