To Be A God, To Be A Buddha

By Steven E Pustay

My dissertation investigates the concept of 'divinization, or becoming like (or identical to God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions. Maximus the Confessor (580- 662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this as a means of comparing the relationship between understandings of identity and praxis advocated by these two thinkers Maximis was a Christian monk who lived during a period of great theological and political turmoil in the Byzantine Empire and participated in the theological debates of his day. Kukai was a Japanese monk who studied esoteric Buddhism in China and returned to establish an esoteric lineage in Japan, allowing it to survive after its demise in

China.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835207057
• ISBN13: 9781835207055
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Dutt Hb
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"