VIMALAKIRTI NIRDESA SUTRA

Jung-Ho Yoon 지음

연화사 2024년 07월 18일 출간

작품소개

책소개

The Teaching of Vimalakirti presents in 14 fairly short chapters the core teachings of Mahayana Buddhism.1 Considered ‘the jewel of Mahayana Sutras,’ the teaching is addressed to very advanced arhats and bodhisattvas by Vimalakirti (“Undefiled Reputation”), a supposedly ill, advanced lay bodhisattva. Especially influential in East Asian Buddhism, the teaching clarifies the meaning of nonduality and stresses the importance of the Bodhisattva ideal of “saving all beings,” as well as many other important themes in Mahayana Buddhism.2 The teaching does this in an insightful and spiritually imaginative, if complex, manner that includes humor, satire, extravagant drama, magic, poetry, and lavish description, as well as straightforward doctrinal discussion. The style of presentation makes The Teaching of Vimalakirti one of the most fascinating, inspiring, and readable, if bizarre, Mahayana Sutras, in fact a Sutra that is so extraordinary that readers are urged to relax their logical, discursive, habitual way of thinking in order to fully absorb the teaching. Most importantly, the Sutra stresses the nondual teaching that all dichotomies like nirvana and samsara, sickness and health, sacred and secular, and men and women are ultimately empty and thus make no sense.3 When this teaching is fully realized, one understands completely (as Dogen and Susuki Roshi continually point out) that everything is already whole – so ‘just try your best and show up.’

목차

The Teachings of Vimalakirti
Introduction
Origin and Brief History
The Storyline
Seven Themes
Purification of the Buddha-Field
Inconceivable Skill in Liberative Technique
The Disciples' Reluctance to Visit Vimalakirti
The Reluctance of the Bodhisattvas
The Consolation of the Invalid
The Inconceivable Liberation [Thrones]
The Goddess
The Family of the Tathagatas
The Dharma-Door of Nonduality
The Feast Brought by the Emanated Incarnation
Lesson of the Destructible and the Indestructible
Vision of the Universe Abhirati and the Tathagata Aksobhya
Epilogue - Antecedents and Transmission of the Holy Dharma
SUMMARY
Practicing with the Vimalakirti Sutra
Antecedents and Transmission of the Holy Dharma
Notes

책 속으로

While the Buddha is teaching outside the city of Vaiśālī, a notable householder in the city—the great bodhisattva Vimalakīrti—apparently falls sick. The Buddha asks his disciple and bodhisattva disciples to call on Vimalakīrti, but each of them relates previous encounters that have rendered them reluctant to face his penetrating scrutiny of their attitudes and activities. Only Mañjuśrī has the courage to pay him a visit, and in the conversations that ensue between Vimalakīrti, Mañjuśrī, and several other interlocutors, Vimalakīrti sets out an uncompromising and profound view of the Buddha’s teaching and the bodhisattva path, illustrated by various miraculous displays. Its masterful narrative structure, dramatic and sometimes humorous dialogue, and highly evolved presentation of teachings have made this sūtra one of the favorites of Mahāyāna literature.

작가정보

저자(글) Jung-Ho Yoon

Name in Full: Jung Ho Yoon
Last Name: Yoon
First Name: Jung Ho
Date of Birth: April 18, 1962

 Education:

 Ph.D. Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea
 Concentrations: Magnetization Transfer Ratio(MTR) Image Processing, Magnetic Resonance, Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Molecular Imaging and Data Analysis, MTR image processing/ MR spectroscopy in Parkinson’s disease animal model.

 M.S. in Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea [2007]
 Concentrations: Image Processing (Particularly MTR image), fMRI in depression
 Thesis: Magnetization Transfer Ratio Imaging by Phase Sensitive Method in Knee Joint, Advisor: Bo-Young Choe, Ph.D.

 B.A. in Physics, Chonnam national University, [1986]
Advisor: Sang-Hyun Yoon, Ph.D.

 Academic Employment

 Sami resin cage in 2011 by the monk Haecho Shunamsa
 Department of Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellow
 Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 110-744, Korea [2012-2013]
Imaging Science Based Lung and Bone Disease Research Center, Research Professor
 Wonkwnag University Hospital, Iksan-city, Jeonbuk, 570-749, Korea [2013-2015]