Buddhist Studies Scholars - Thomas William Rhys Davids, Yin Shun, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Paul Carus, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Thomas William Rhys Davids, Yin Shun, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Paul Carus, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Edward Conze, Nyanaponika Thera, Henk Blezer, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Eugene Burnouf, Charles Rockwell Lanman, Kenneth K. Tanaka, Hermann Oldenberg, Padmanabh Jaini, Taitetsu Unno, Ananda W. P. Guruge, Benimadhab Barua, Robert Caesar Childers, Nanamoli Bhikkhu, Louis de La Vallee-Poussin, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, David Kalupahana, Dennis Hirota, Viggo Fausboll, Vladimir Toporov, Erich Frauwallner, L. S. Cousins, John S. Strong. Excerpt: Yin Shun (, Yinshun D osh ) (12 March 1906 -4 June 2005) was a well-known Buddhist monk and scholar in the tradition of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, particularly the Three Treatise school. Yin Shun's research helped bring forth the ideal of Humanistic Buddhism, a leading mainstream Buddhist philosophy studied and upheld by many practitioners. His work also regenerated the interests in the long-ignored Agamas (Nikayas) among Chinese Buddhists society and his ideas are echoed by Theravadin teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi. As a contemporary master, he was most popularly known as the mentor of Cheng Yen (Pinyin: Zhengyan), the founder of Tzu-Chi Buddhist Foundation, as well as the teacher to several other prominent monastics. Although Master Yin Shun is closely associated with the Tzu-Chi Foundation, he has had a decisive influence on others of the new generation of Buddhist monks such as Sheng-yen of Dharma Drum Mountain and Hsing Yun of Fo Guang Shan, who are active in humanitarian aid, social work, environmentalism and academic research as well. He was known affectionately by many Buddhists as their mentor. Yin Shun was born prematurely on March 12, 1906 in a small village in Zhejiang Province, China, near Shanghai. His birth name was Zhang Luqin Wade-Giles, Chang Luch'in. Eleven days after his birt...