Description
Book SynopsisThe Huayan scholar-monk Fazang (643-712) formulated, with the Ten Subtle and Unimpeded Dharma-Gates' of Pratityasamutpada, or Ten Dharma-Gates,' a series of cognitive and affective paradigms that describe how the Enlightenment-Mind apprehends reality. These patterns, in turn, model the way Buddhists understand, explain, configure, reflection, imagine, and engage the world. The basis for these paradigms is the truth and experience of pratityasamutpada, dependent-co-arising,' which the Buddha intuited.
This book traces the origins and unfolding of the insight of an interdependent and multi-centered reality, which Fazang crystallizes with the Ten Dharma-Gates,' and employs that insight to reflect on modern ethical and moral concerns, curriculum design, and aesthetics. Examination of the presuppositions of Buddhist thoughtdistinguishing it from the certainty of absolute-centered ideologies that subsume all meaning and valuesshould be of interest to academics.
Trade Review
“Dr. Nakasone, long-time scholar of the Huayan (Avataṃsaka) teachings, illuminates 法界縁起, dharmadhātu-pratītyasamutpāda, or “universal dependent co-arising,” a core insight from the Buddha’s experience of Awakening. The culmination of many years of study and reflection, this book is a richly rewarding investigation of essential Dharma for 21st century students of the Buddha’s wisdom.” —Heng Sure, Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and Senior Monastic at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Ukiah, California
Table of Contents
Foreword – Preface – Conventions – List of Illustrations – Introduction – Spiritual Geography – Mind, The Cartographer – Surveying the Terrain – Alternative and Ambiguous Maps – The Ambiguity of Death – Moral Ambiguity – Curriculum Design: Spirituality and Aging in the Japanese Experience – Spiritual Aesthetics of Sho (Calligraphy) - Dharma Gate of Beauty – Discoveries and Reflections – Glossary – Bibliography – Index – Index of Names.
