Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism
A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries
By (author) Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
Hardback (Published)
(July 2002)
ISBN: 9783895002632
6.69 x 9.45 inches
Price: $87.00
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Since the 12th century, a central feature of Buddhism in Tibet was its harmonizing of tantric practice with the moral codes of monastic discipline and Bodhisattva altruism. All masters maintained the vajrayana or tantric path to be superior to the two „lower“ codes, but they described this superiority differently. In the present study, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch explores for the first time in detail the three main strategies maintained by the oldest Tibetan schools for explaining the relations of the three codes.<br/>
English description: Since the 12th century, a central feature of Buddhism in Tibet was its harmonizing of tantric practice with the moral codes of monastic discipline and Bodhisattva altruism. All masters maintained the vajrayana or tantric path to be superior to the two “lower” codes, but they described this superiority differently. In the present study, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch explores for the first time in detail the three main strategies maintained by the oldest Tibetan schools for explaining the relations of the three codes. German description: Ein Kernpunkt des tibetischen Buddhismus ist seine Harmonisierung tantrischer Praxis mit dem Moralkodex klosterlicher Disziplin und dem Altruismus der Bodhisattvas. Alle Gelehrten vertraten die Ansicht, dass Vajrayana bzw. der tantrische Pfad den Regeln der beiden “niederen” Fahrzeuge uberlegen sei, sie beschrieben diese Uberlegenheit jedoch unterschiedlich. In der vorliegenden Studie werden von Jan-Ulrich Sobisch zum ersten Mal die drei hauptsachlichen Strategien im Detail untersucht, die von den altesten tibetischen Schulen vertreten werden, um das Verhaltnis der drei Kodizes zueinander zu erlautern.
- By (author) Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
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Red mda’ ba. Buddhist Yogi-Scholar of the Fourteenth Century
The Forgotten Reviver of Madhyamaka Philosophy in Tibet
Die Statue und der Tempel des Arya Va-ti bzang-po
Ein Beitrag zu Geschichte und Geographie des tibetischen Buddhismus
Kategorien der Wirklichkeit im frühen Yogacara
Der Fünf-vastu-Abschnitt in der Viniscayasamgrahani der Yogacarabhumi
Das tibetische Fürstentum La stod lHo (um 1265 bis 1642)
Die Geschichte der Herrschaftsbildung nebst einer Edition der Chronik Shel dkar chos ‘byung
Dating Tibetan Art
Essays on the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Chronology from the Lempertz Symposium, Cologne
Shakya-mchog-ldan, Mahapandita des Klosters gSer-mdog-can
Leben und Werk nach den tibetischen Quellen
The Illuminating Mirror
Tibetan Studies in Honour of Per K. Sørensen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Scribes, Texts, and Rituals in Early Tibet and Dunhuang
Proceedings of the Third Old Tibetan Studies Panel held at the Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010
Die Hagiographie des La phyi ba Nam mkha’ rgyal mtshan (1372 bis 1437)
Eine Studie über das Leben eines tibetischen Heiligen
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