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Cultivating Original Enlightenment - Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong Non) (Paperback)
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Cultivating Original Enlightenment - Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong Non) (Paperback)
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Wonhyo (617-686) is the dominant figure in the history of Korean
Buddhism and one of the most influential thinkers in the Korean
philosophical tradition. Koreans know Wonhyo in his various roles
as Buddhist mystic, miracle worker, social iconoclast, religious
proselytist, and cultural hero. Above all else, Wonhyo was an
innovative thinker and prolific writer, whose works cover the gamut
of Indian and Sinitic Buddhist materials: Some one hundred
treatises and commentaries are attributed to him, twenty-three of
which are extant today. Wonhyo's importance is not limited to the
peninsula, however. His writings were widely read in China and
Japan, and his influence on the overall development of East Asian
Mahayana thought is significant, particularly in relation to the
Huayan, Chan, and Pure Land schools. In Cultivating Original
Enlightenment, the first volume in The International Association of
Wonhyo Studies' Collected Works of Wonhyo series, Robert E. Buswell
Jr. translates Wonhyo's longest and culminating work, the
Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong Non).
Wonhyo here brings to bear all the tools acquired throughout a
lifetime of scholarship and meditation to the explication of a
scripture that has a startling connection to the Korean Buddhist
tradition. In his treatise, Wonhyo examines the crucial question of
how enlightenment can be turned from a tantalizing prospect into a
palpable reality that manifests itself in all activities.
Introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr.
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