Emptiness and Omnipresence by Brook A Ziporyn

Emptiness and Omnipresence by Brook A Ziporyn

Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to draw out its implications for ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Ziporyn explains Tiantai's unlikely roots, its positions of extreme affirmation and rejection, its religious skepticism and embrace of religious myth, and its view of human consciousness. Ziporyn reveals the profound insights of Tiantai Buddhism while stimulating philosophical reflection on its unexpected effects.

Those who take the journey with Ziporyn will find a rich and rewarding work, not simply due to the mind-boggling Tiantai doctrine, but also because of Ziporyn's respect for the tradition and his extraordinary finesse in presenting its demanding ideas

* Publishers Weekly *

Brook A. Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780253021120
ISBN 10	025302112X
Title	Emptiness and Omnipresence
Author	Brook A Ziporyn
Series	World Philosophies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Year published	2016-05-02
Number of pages	336
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