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The Lotus Sutra: A Biography
Donald S. Lopez Jr.
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Hardback. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
The Lotus Sutra is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist scriptures. Composed in India in the first centuries of the Common Era, it is renowned for its inspiring message that all beings are destined for supreme enlightenment. Here, Donald Lopez provides an engaging and accessible biography of this enduring classic. Lopez traces the many roles the Lotus Sutra has played in its travels through Asia, Europe, and across the seas to America. The story begins in India, where it was one of the early Mahayana sutras, which sought to redefine the Buddhist path. In the centuries that followed, ... Read more
The Lotus Sutra is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist scriptures. Composed in India in the first centuries of the Common Era, it is renowned for its inspiring message that all beings are destined for supreme enlightenment. Here, Donald Lopez provides an engaging and accessible biography of this enduring classic. Lopez traces the many roles the Lotus Sutra has played in its travels through Asia, Europe, and across the seas to America. The story begins in India, where it was one of the early Mahayana sutras, which sought to redefine the Buddhist path. In the centuries that followed, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Lives of Great Religious Books
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691152202
SKU
V9780691152202
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About Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. His many books include The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (with Robert E. Buswell, Jr.) and The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography (Princeton). He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Reviews for The Lotus Sutra: A Biography
In the raft of entertaining characters found in the [Lotus Sutra] itself ... Lopez's book adds a cast of historical figures across two millennia united only by their passion for the book... Lopez's book shows us that translators are the unsung heroes of religious, as much as literary, history.
Chandrahas Choudhury, Wall Street Journal With scholarly acumen, contextual nuance, ... Read more
Chandrahas Choudhury, Wall Street Journal With scholarly acumen, contextual nuance, ... Read more