Translating Totality in Parts
Chengguan’s Commentaries and Subcommentaries to the Avatamska Sutra
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Religious, Eastern Religions, Buddhism
| Author: | Guo Cheen | ISBN: | 9780761863106 |
| Publisher: | UPA | Publication: | March 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | UPA | Language: | English |
| Author: | Guo Cheen |
| ISBN: | 9780761863106 |
| Publisher: | UPA |
| Publication: | March 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | UPA |
| Language: | English |
Translating Totality in Parts offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan’s most revered masterpieces. With this book, Chengguan’s Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra and The Meanings Proclaimed in the Subcommentaries Accompanying the Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra are finally brought to contemporary Western audiences. Translating Totality in Parts allows Western readers to experience Chengguan’s important contributions to the religious and philosophical theory of the Huayan and Buddhism in China.
Translating Totality in Parts offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan’s most revered masterpieces. With this book, Chengguan’s Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra and The Meanings Proclaimed in the Subcommentaries Accompanying the Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra are finally brought to contemporary Western audiences. Translating Totality in Parts allows Western readers to experience Chengguan’s important contributions to the religious and philosophical theory of the Huayan and Buddhism in China.
