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Table, Denko. - Buddhism, history and doctrina.vol I. Kapok tree. 2006
We present here the introduction of Dokushō Villalba, and next a comment of the proper author.
The first volume of the trilogy has just been published "Buddhism, history and doctrine", for Kapok tree Editions.
This collection is the fruit of more than twelve years of work of a team formed by a dozen of persons that to beginning of the nonsales we initiate the task of preparing a Program of Studies Buddhists for the members of the Community Buddhist Copse
Zen, initiatory pioneer in our country, in Europe and perhaps in the Hispanic world.
The Buddhism is drawing into the Spanish society. Every time the centers are more numerous, teachers, muds, monks and laymen dedicated to the practice and to the study of this spiritual tradition of more than two thousand five hundred years of existence. Although every tradition Buddhist, every school and every enseńante is provided with its own study texts, according to his lineage, one allowed to feel the need for a wide, structured vision and for easy comprehension that was allowing to the practicing Spanish Buddhists and to the interested parties in the topic in general, a global perception of the basic philosophical and spiritual beginning of the Dharma of Buddha.
This has been the target of the present work. Although our pretension has not been to prepare a definitive presentation, at least we believe that humbly we have helped to give an important step.
Three volumes that compose this work will be published gradually throughout next months. I hope that they should contribute to the knowledge of the Dharma taught by Buddha and perpetuated across a big wealth of schools and lineages and that it should facilitate the wide rooting that the Buddhism is having in our country.
In a more and more multicultural and diverse society, the education of Buddha, based on the self-knowledge and on the compassion, it can contribute an essential contribution to the essential dialogue between the civilizations that shape the human family.
The reader of this work will be able to study and know in detail the principal contributions of the Buddhism. The different contents of the book appear in a suitable explanatory style. In this first volume (the series will contain three volumes) we have looked for the simplicity in the explanations by means of the use of a clear and lively language, in order to facilitate the study and the comprehension of this millennial spiritual way.
We set off from the origins themselves, previous to the life of Shākyamūni Budha, this is, we announce which was and how the historical - religious context of India was in the IVth century a.n.e. We revise the philosophical-religious principal contributions of the thought
Vedanta and of the Upanishad, currents that preceded and marked the birth of the Buddhism.
In some initial passages of the book, we mention to the life and works of some contemporary teachers to the Budha. Also we stop in the analysis of the most excellent schools in the expansion of the Buddhism, which will allow us to value the historical figure of Shākyamūni as his wise contributions.
We have gathered, then, some fragments of the classic works of the tradition Buddhist whose contents, sometimes, were presented in the shape of myths, legends, poetry, etc., educations that enrich the general style of the present volume.
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