Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise

Contents

Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ABBREVIATIONS xi CONVENTIONS OF USAGE xii Introduction: Prolegomenon to the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature 1 Part 1: The Historical and Cosmological Background 1. The Date and Provenance of the Treasure Store Treatise 31 2. Chinese Buddhism and the Cosmology of Sympathetic Resonance 77 Part 2: Annotated Translation of the Treasure Store Treatise Introduction to the Translation 137 3. The Treasure Store Treatise/Chapter One The Broad Illumination of Emptiness and Being 143 4. The Treasure Store Treatise/Chapter Two The Essential Purity of Transcendence and Subtlety 193 5. The Treasure Store Treatise/Chapter Three The Empty Mystery of the Point of Genesis 228 Appendix 1: On Esoteric Buddhism in China 263 Appendix 2: Scriptural Quotations in the Treasure Store Treatise 279 NOTES 287 WORKS CITED 345 INDEX 379 vii ...