• Steve McCarty deposited Zen and Esoteric Buddhism Papers in the group Group logo of Buddhist StudiesBuddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago

    Two papers on the Jungian psychology of Asian religions from M.A. coursework at the University of Hawaii in 1978. “Equations of Freedom with Enlightenment” analyzes Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen as to the meaning of liberation. Then “This World as a Symbolic Body of the Buddha” analyzes the Shingon Buddhist cosmology of Kukai and its Tantric predecessors in India, culminating in the notion of Buddhahood in this body.