The Great Calming and Contemplation
By Zhiyi
Translated by Neal Donner
Translated by Daniel B. Stevenson
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1993, Kuroda Institute Classics in East Asian Buddhism
First written 594
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An annotated translation of the first chapter of Zhiyi’s Mohe zhiguan, his great treatise on calm and insight, with a study of its place in Tiantai thought and of the threefold truth on which its meditation rests.
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Zhiyi. The Great Calming and Contemplation: A Study and Annotated Translation of the First Chapter of Chih-i’s Mo-ho chih-kuan. Translated by Neal Donner and Daniel B. Stevenson. Kuroda Institute Classics in East Asian Buddhism. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1993.
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