What is Buddhist enlightenment?
By: Dale S. Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780190622596
Subjects: Enlightenment (Buddhism)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244).
Table of contents: title: Why ask what enlightenment is?; title: Contemporary images of enlightenment; title: The Bodhisattva's practice of enlightenment; title: The awakening of character as an image of contemporary enlightenment; title: Secular Buddhism and the religious dimension of enlightenment; title: The moral dimension of enlightenment; title: Enlightenment and the experience of Karma; title: Enlightenment and the moral dimension of Zen training; title: Enlightenment and the persistence of human fallibility; title: The thought of enlightenment and the dilemma of human achievement; title: Language and the experience of enlightenment; title: Language in Zen enlightenment; title: Enlightenment and the practice of meditative reading; title: From the thought of enlightenment to the event of awakening; title: Theses on contemporary enlightenment.