Jan, Yün-hua
Birth: | 1923/03/15 |
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Death: | 2018/12/31 |
Place of birth: | China |
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- McMaster University
PhD University
- Visva-Bharati University, India
Education
Ph.D., Visva-Bharati University, India
Biographical Information
Yūn-hua Jan was Professor of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton. He received a Canada Council Fellowship (1973-74) and has lectured in Chinese Studies at Visva-Bharati University, India. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo (1974). He was the author of A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 581-906 A.D. (1967) and The Autobiography of Ch'i Pai-shih. He has contributed many articles written in Chinese and English to various journals. He received his Ph.D. from the Visva-Bharati University, India. (Source: Adapted from The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1981)
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
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Which Wheel Turning | |
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
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Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
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