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Title: Birds in the Egg and Newborn Lion Cubs: Metaphors for the Potentialities and Limitations of 'All-at-once' Enlightenment
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: David Paul Jackson
One Sentence Summary: This article looks at the early uses of two metaphors for enlightenment, a bird still in the egg and a newborn lion, as well as later controversies surrounding the use and meaning of these metaphors.

Description: This article looks at the early uses of two metaphors for enlightenment, a bird still in the egg and a newborn lion, as well as later controversies surrounding the use and meaning of these metaphors. The metaphors were employed by Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese Buddhists, most famously in accounts of the debate between Indian and Chinese Buddhists at the Samyé (bsam yas) monastery in Tibet. Controversy often stemmed from debate as to whether or not the imagery conveyed a notion of “simultaneous” or “all-at-once” (cig car ba) enlightenment. (Ben Deitle 2006-02-23)

Publisher Place: Narita, Narita-shi, Chiba-ken
Publisher: Naritasan Shinshoji
Normalized publisher place: Narita
Publisher country: Japan
Published Date: 1992
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Multi-Author Edited Volumes -- Conference Proceedings -- Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (PIATS) -- PIATS 5 (1989) -- Tibetan Studies, PIATS 5, vol. 1
Cultural Coverage: India
China
Tibet
Temporal coverage: 8th century CE
10th century CE
11th century CE
12th century CE
13th century CE
14th century CE
15th century CE
16th century CE
Language: English
Series Title: Proceedings of the International Association for Tibetan Studies
Series volume: 5
Series 2 editor: Shōren Ihara
Series 2 volume: 2
Series 2 Title: Monograph Series of Naritasan Institute for Buddhist Studies Occasional Papers
Source: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the 5th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Narita 1989
Source Editor: Shōren Ihara
Zuihō Yamaguchi
Source Type: Conference Proceedings
Source Volume: 1
Source Page Numbers: 95-113
Format: Print media (print or manuscript, including PDFs)
Resource Type: Article
Release Flag: OK for viewing
Date Of Record Creation: 2006-02-27 14:53:26
Date Record Checked: 2006-03-09
Date Last Modified: 2008-03-19 13:06:24
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