The Buddhist tradition in India, China & Japan / edited by Wm. Theodore De Bary. ; with the collaboration of Yoshito Hakeda and Philip Yampolsky and with contributions by A.L. Basham, Leon Hurvitz, and Ryusaku Tsunoda.
Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1972, ©1969.Description: xxii, 417 pages ; 19 cmISBN:- 0394716965
- 9780394716961
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Books | BSOP Library | Special Collections English | BQ1138 B85 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00048162 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-401) and index.
Early Buddhism -- The life of Buddha as a way of salvation -- "The greater vehicle" of Mahāyāna Buddhism -- Tantricism and the decline of Buddhism in India -- The coming of Buddhism to China -- The schools of Chinese Buddhism -- The introduction of Buddhism to Japan -- Saichō and the lotus teaching -- Kūkai and esoteric Buddhism -- Amida and the pure land -- Nichiren's faith in the lotus -- Zen.