TAN BUTSU GE : Song in Praise of the Buddha/Song of the Life of No Regret

The Venerable Gyomay M. Kubose (Translattion & Commentary)

Verlag: The Dharma House, Chicago, IL, 1976

Beschreibung

Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Good; sound w/light edge wear, surface rubs & faint creasings to corner tips; archival tape fortification of worn spine. Buddhism. Pure Land sect --- how to be reborn in the Pure Land. A short, chant in verse; a hymn in the full sense. One of many Chinese reditions of Indian Sutras dating from c. 250 A.D. A song praising Buddha. Text , Concluding lines: "Should my physical being end today/ Be it in a bitter, even poisonous, way/ Still I move forward/ Knowing no regrets" (loose translation by 100Pockets). Author, American-Japanese Shin Shu priest Gyomay M. Kubose, founder of the Buddhist Temple of Chicago. Text in Chinese ideograms, Japanese pronunciations ascribed to the ideograms, and rough English translations in line with ascribed Japanese readings. Commentaries to rear. 56 pgs. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 018401

Bibliografische Details

Titel: TAN BUTSU GE : Song in Praise of the Buddha/...

Verlag: The Dharma House, Chicago, IL

Erscheinungsdatum: 1976

Einband: Soft Cover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None as Issued

Auflage: Reprint.

Art des Buches: Vintage/Buddhist Scripts