Through Which Reality Shines : A Commentary on D. T. Suzuki's 'Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism'

Sangharakshita/ Nagapriya (EDT)

Windhorse Publications（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781915342591
• DDC分類 294.392

Full Description

Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966) was one of the first comprehensive accounts of Mahayana Buddhism in English. For Sangharakshita, a seminar on this pioneering but flawed work provided an occasion to demonstrate his own critical methodology. In doing so, he could also elaborate his synthesis of the key features of Mahayana Buddhism. 'The arising of the Mahayana was not the arbitrary founding of a sect,' he explains, 'but the whole process of Buddhism becoming richer over the course of centuries.' Tracing the contours of Suzuki's work, Sangharakshita offers distinctive interpretations of a wide range of topics that include karma, anatman, and the mysterious dharmakaya.

Sparkling in its originality, scope, and fluency, this commentary amounts to a kind of imaginative journey into Sangharakshita's fertile and meticulous sensibility.

Contents

About the Author

Foreword

Prologue

Introduction

1.General Characterization of Buddhism

2. Historical Characterisation of Mahayanism

3. Speculative Mahayanism

4. Classification of Knoweledge

5. Bhuta-tathata (suchness)

6. Tathagatagarbha and the Alaya-Vijanana

7. The Theory of Non-Atman or Non-Ego

8. Karma

9.The Dharmakaya

10. The Doctrine of Trikaya

11. The Bodhisattava

12. The Ten Stages of Bodhisattvahood

13. Nirvana

Conclusion: Verses from the Avatamsaka Sutra

Notes and References