What is Buddhist enlightenment?
Dale Wright offers a wide-ranging exploration of issues that have a bearing on the contemporary meaning of enlightenment. He considers the historical meanings of enlightenment within various Buddhist traditions, but does so in order to expand on the larger question that our lives press upon us-what kinds of lives should we aspire to live here, now, and into the future?
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- Full title :What is Buddhist enlightenment? / Dale S. Wright.
Summary
Dale Wright offers a wide-ranging exploration of issues that have a bearing on the contemporary meaning of enlightenment. He considers the historical meanings of enlightenment within various Buddhist traditions, but does so in order to expand on the larger question that our lives press upon us-what kinds of lives should we aspire to live here, now, and into the future?
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- Publication Date:©2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190622602, 0190622601, 9780190622619, 019062261X, 9780190622626, 0190622628
- oclc:ocn958963185
- LC Classification:BQ4398
- Dewey Decimal:294.3/442
Table of Contents
Introduction: why ask what enlightenment is? -- 1. The Bodhisattva's practice of enlightenment -- 2. The awakening of character as an image of contemporary enlightenment -- 3. Secular Buddhism and the religious dimension of enlightenment -- 4. Enlightenment and the experience of Karma -- 5. Enlightenment and the moral dimension of Zen training -- 6. Enlightenment and the persistence of human fallibility -- 7. The thought of enlightenment and the dilemma of human achievement -- 8. Language in Zen enlightenment -- 9. Enlightenment and the practice of meditative reading -- 10. From the thought of enlightenment to the event of awakening -- Conclusion: ten theses on contemporary enlightenment.
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