Filial Piety in Chinese Buddhism

ISBN-13: 9781433192005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Guang Xing

Opis

The book describes how Buddhism integrated into the Chinese culture by accepting good teachings from the Chinese philosophy such as filial piety because it is an important moral teaching in Confucianism and it has shaped nearly every aspect of Chinese social life.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - List of Tables - Foreword by Professor Timothy H. Barrett - Introduction - Filial Piety in Early Buddhism - Early Buddhist and Confucian Concepts of Filial Piety: A Comparative Study - The Spread of the Buddhist Teaching of Filial Piety during the Six Dynasties: A Study Based on the Shanzi Jing and the Yulanpen Jing - Buddhist Responses to Confucian and Daoist Criticisms of Filial Piety - "Filial Piety are the Precepts": Chinese Buddhist Reinterpretation of the Precepts - A Study of the Apocryphal Text: Fumu Enzhong Jing - A Study of Repaying the Four Kinds of Compassion - Qisong's Xiaolun (Treatise on Filial Piety): A Study and Critical Translation - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Guang Xing (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies) is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia. His publications include The Concept of the Buddha, The Historical Buddha, and many papers.