Lotus In A Stream

by YUN, HSING

• ISBN13: 9780834804418
• ISBN10: 0834804417
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Weatherhill

Summary

Over the centuries, Buddhism has produced an enormous quantity of teachings, doctrines, and highly complex systems of thought, making it very difficult to obtain a grasp of the full range of Buddhist philosophy and practice. InLotus in a Stream, Chinese Buddhist Master Hsing Yun offers a Buddhist primer to organizes the major ideas and practices of Buddhism, from the most basic to the most complex, and presents them in concise, accessible, yet highly insightful mini-essays. An accomplished scholar of Buddhism, Master Hsing Yun also illuminates Buddhist doctrines with the light of decades of practice. Whether read straight through or flipped through as a handy encyclopedia,Lotus in a Streamis the perfect reference for beginners and advanced students of Buddhism alike.

Author Biography

Master Hsing Yun is a Chinese Buddhist monk and forty-eighth patriarch of the Linji School of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. He is founder of Fo Kuang Shan monastery in Taiwan and of the Buddha's Light International Association, which has nearly a million members worldwide.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	7	(2)
Foreword	9	(10)
How to Study Buddhism	19	(9)
The Four Noble Truths	28	(8)
Karma	36	(9)
The Five Precepts	45	(9)
The Noble Eightfold Path	54	(11)
Taking Refuge in the Triple Gem	65	(8)
Dependent Origination	73	(11)
The Three Dharma Seals	84	(10)
Emptiness	94	(8)
Nature	102	(14)
Mind	116	(6)
How to Understand the Buddha	122	(9)
Nirvana	131	(10)
Bodhisattvas	141	(12)
Humanistic Buddhism	153	(6)
Glossary	159	(2)
List of Scriptures	161	(4)
Index	165