Training Anthology of Santideva - A Translation of the Tsiksa-Samuccaya

Zusatztext Charles Goodman has taken on the important task of rendering this valuable text into readable twenty-first-century English - not an easy task, given the often abstract and passive prose in the texts composite Buddhist and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. That in itself would be a major contribution, but Goodman's effort goes considerably further ... This work easily surpasses Bendall and Rouse as the definitive English translation of the Sik Informationen zum Autor Charles Goodman is a Buddhist scholar, philosopher, translator, and meditation teacher. He is an Associate Professor at Binghamton University. His academic interests include ethical theory, Buddhist philosophy, metaphysics, and applied ethics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is the author of Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics. Klappentext The Training Anthology-or TSik¿a-samuccaya-is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva. This annotated translation includes a detailed analysis of the philosophy of the Training Anthology and an introduction to Santideva's cultural and religious contexts. Zusammenfassung The Training Anthology--or TSik?a-samuccaya--is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva. This annotated translation includes a detailed analysis of the philosophy of the Training Anthology and an introduction to Santideva's cultural and religious contexts.

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• Authors: Asaantideva, Charles Goodman
• Assisted by: Charles Goodman (Translation), Charles Goodman (Editor and translation), Goodman Charles (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2016
• EAN: 9780199391349
• ISBN: 978-0-19-939134-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, Tibetan Buddhism