Translating Totality in Parts offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan's most revered masterpieces. With this book, Chengguan's Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra and The Meanings Proclaimed in the Subcommentaries Accompanying the Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra are finally brought to contemporary Western audiences. Translating Totality in Parts allows Western readers to experience Chengguan's important contributions to the religious and philosophical theory of the Huayan and Buddhism in China.
- ISBN10 0761863095
- ISBN13 9780761863090
- Publish Date 25 March 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 162
- Language English