Mo-ho Chih-kuan

The Great Cessation-and-Contemplation

(Mo-ho Chih-kuan)

CD-ROM

Translator: Paul L. Swanson, permanent fellow and director of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and professor at Nanzan University

Background: The Mo-ho chih-kuan by T'ien-t'ai Chih-i (538--597) is among the most influential treatises in the long history of Buddhist scholarship. It stands as one of the most important treatises of Sino-Japanese Buddhism, not only for the brilliant insights revealed therein, but also in its systematic and comprehensive treatment of both the teaching and practice of the Buddha Dharma. Paul L. Swanson has spent many years rendering this voluminous work into English, and has finished translating the first four fascicles (from the Introduction through Chapter 6), some thirty-five percent of the entire work. This elaborate annotated translation, with additional rich resources in its appendixes, provides the original source material for a deeper understanding of T'ien-t'ai philosophy and practice, which later became the foundation for a great number of Buddhist movements in China, Korea, and Japan.

Front matter:
Preface to Provisional Printing
Table of Contents
Detailed Outline of Mo-ho chih-kuan

Text:
Introduction [by Kuan-ting]
An Outline of the Ten Chapters [of the Entire Work]
Chapter 1. Synopsis
Chapter 2. Explanation of Terms
Chapter 3. Features of the Essence of Cessation-and-Contemplation
Chapter 4. Encompassing All Dharmas
Chapter 5. Incomplete and Perfect Cessation-and-Contemplation
Chapter 6. Clarification of Twenty-five Preparatory Means

Back matter:
Endnotes
Bibliography of T'ien-t'ai Related Materials
Charts
Chinese Character Index
Glossary of T'ien-t'ai Terms
List of Texts Quoted in the Mo-ho chih-kuan
Translations of Supplementary Texts
Translation without Notes

Bonus material: Additional material such as photos of T'ien-t'ai related sites, and previously published essays on T'ien-t'ai Buddhism by Paul Swanson

Number of pages: 1,152 (introduction, xviii; annotated text, 475; appendixes, 339; translation without notes, 320)

Format: CD-ROM; Searchable PDF files accessible in both Windows and Mac systems (Adobe Acrobat Reader, for reading PDF files, can be downloaded for free; go to Acrobat Reader.)

Price: 3,500 Japanese yen (about US$35.00)

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