Buddhist Texts Selection

Author: Lin Guoliang
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The purpose of "Selected Readings from Buddhist Texts" is to help readers engage with Buddhist classics. The target audience is general readers, so the "Annotations" and "Guides" are mostly characterized by simplicity and clarity, striving to transform complexity into simplicity, obscurity into clarity, and profundity into popular language. Only in some chapters, such as "The Consciousness-Only Chapter," "The Emptiness Chapter," "The Zen Enlightenment Chapter," and "Selected Zen Poetry," do the author's new research insights reflect, so the "Annotations," "Guides," etc., in these chapters are more detailed.