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Translating Totality in Parts: Chengguan's Commentaries and Subcommentaries to the Avatamska Sutra Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Guo Cheen (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of America (UK)
- Publication Date: 25 Mar. 2014
- Edition: Bilingual
- Language: English
- Print length: 162 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780761863090
- ISBN-13: 0761863095
Book Description
Translating Totality in Parts offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan’s most revered masterpieces. With this book, Chengguan’s Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra and The Meanings Proclaimed in the Subcommentaries Accompanying the Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra are finally brought to contemporary Western audiences. Translating Totality in Parts allows Western readers to experience Chengguan’s important contributions to the religious and philosophical theory of the Huayan and Buddhism in China.
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About the Author
Guo Cheen is a Mahayana Buddhist nun who founded The Compassion Network in Seattle, Washington. She is also a co-editor of Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership:Where Grace Meets Power.
