The Brahma Æs Net Sutra

The Brahma's Net Sutra plays an important niche role in the development of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the primary extant Vinaya text that articulates the precepts from a Mahayana perspective. That is, it takes its main audience to be "bodhisattva practitioners”, mainly householders who remain engaged with society rather than becoming renunciant monks or nuns.

About the author

A. Charles Muller is professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo. His main work lies in the fields of Korean Buddhism, East Asian Yog?c?ra, East Asian classical lexicography, and online scholarly resource development.

Kenneth K. Tanaka is a professor of Buddhism at Musashino University in Tokyo, Japan, and is an ordained Jodo Shinshu priest. His work includes books and articles in the fields of Pure Land Buddhism and the development of Buddhism in the United States.

Summary

The Brahma's Net Sutra plays an important niche role in the development of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the primary extant Vinaya text that articulates the precepts from a Mahayana perspective. That is, it takes its main audience to be "bodhisattva practitioners", mainly householders who remain engaged with society rather than becoming renunciant monks or nuns.

Product details

• Authors: A. Charles (TRN)/ Tanaka Muller
• Assisted by: A Charles Muller (Translation), A. Charles Muller (Translation), Kenneth K Tanaka (Translation), Kenneth K. Tanaka (Translation)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781886439658
• ISBN: 978-1-886439-65-8
• No. of pages: 111
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions