| The Summary of the Great Vehicle Rev Edition Contributor(s): Keenan, John P. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1886439214 ISBN-13: 9781886439214 Publisher: BDK America OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2006 Annotation: This work attempts to systematize Buddhist thought into a unified whole from the standpoint of the YogDcDra school. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - Sacred Writings |
| Dewey: 294.385 |
| LCCN: 2003111530 |
| Series: BDK English Tripitaka |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.28" W x 9.54" (0.96 lbs) 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Summary of the Great Vehicle is perhaps the most representative text of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. It presents the classic argument for the basic Yogacara themes on conscious interiority, attempting to reinterpret within this context the general Mahayana teachings of emptiness and dependent co-arising. It then proceeds to explain the etiology if imaginative illusion, sketch its reversal by offering an explanation of the nature of conversion, champion the recovered insight into depended co-arising in terms of the converted other-dependent pattern of consciousness, and thus allow for a valid, if limited, role for language-formed, conventional discourse, both commonsense and theoretical. |