Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 6. 

viii, 298 pages ; 24 cm.; Essays originally presented at a conference held at the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values in Los Angeles in the spring of 1984.; Assessment of textual interpretation in Buddhism /Étienne Lamotte --The gradual path as a hermeneutical approach to Dhamma /George D. Bond --On the interpretation of the Mahāyāna Sūtras /Donald S. Lopez, Jr. --Killing, lying, stealing, and adultery: a problem of interpretation in the Tantras /Michael M. Broido --Vajra hermeneutics /Robert A.F. Thurman --Mi-pham's theory of interpretation /Matthew Kapstein --Hermeneutical phases in Chinese Buddhism /David W. Chappell --What happened to the "perfect teaching"?: another look at Hua-yen Buddhist hermeneutics /Peter N. Gregory --Chʼan hermeneutics: a Korean view /Robert E. Buswell, Jr. --Truth words: the basis of Kūkai's theory of interpretation /Thomas P. Kasulis --Shinran's proofs of true Buddhism /Roger Tashi Corless.; 

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