Name/Title
Exploring Buddhism / Christmas HumphreysEntry/Object ID
BQ4012 1980Tags
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In half a century of exploration in the spiritual continent of Buddhism, Christmas Humphreys has made intensive expeditions into the theory and practice of selected corners of the field. Buddhism has through the centuries become so vast that is difficult to write about all of it. Practitioners as well as scholars must specialise and concentrate on a chosen area. This book is an account of those explorations. It is not another textbook of Buddhism and large areas are scarcely touched upon. Some of the twenty subjects covered in this book have been well trodden, others less fully explored, but Christmas Humphreys brings to them all a personal freshness of approach which forms a valuable addition to Western buddhist literature. --Back Cover
Contents:
THE BUDDHA AND HIS ENLIGHTENMENT
The Buddha's Enlightenment
The Purpose of Affray
Buddhism and the Esoteric Tradition
The Two Concentric Circles of Buddhism in Tibet
Self and No-self
BUDDHIST DOCTRINES
Central Themes of Buddhism
The Precipice and the Mountain
The Buddhist Concept of Dharma
When One is Two
Karma and Rebirth
When I am Dead
The Head and the Heart
Beauty
The Arhat and the Bodhisattva Ideal
Absolutely Relative
Cease from Running
A Beginner's Guide to Zen
Soto Zen
BUDDHISM COMES WEST
Buddhism comes West
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Why Buddhism?
Zen comes West
ON DOING BUDDHISM
On Doing Buddhism
Buddhism in Daily Life
Should Buddhists Meditate?
Concentration and Meditation
Empty the MindCollection
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188 pagesBook Details
Author
Christmas HumphreysPublisher
George Allen & UnwinDate Published
1980Publication Subjects
BuddhismCall No.
BQ4012 1980ISBN
004294113X