The best place to start learning about Buddhism and Hinduism is through Jainism. First of all, it is the oldest one, already mentioned in the Vedas, so it influenced both other isms. Secondly, few people pay attention to it, and this is wrong. So you will fix this error.
Read Shunryu Suzuki's The Essence of Zen. Beginner's consciousness. A very interesting and informative book in the field of Zen Buddhism. The author of the book, you can say, single-handedly brought this movement to America, and then wrote this book.
With regard to Buddhism, I would say that modern Chinese researchers include three areas in the concept of “Chinese Buddhism”: Han Buddhism , Southern Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism.�
One of the first Chinese researchers to lay the foundation for Chinese Tibetology was Lu Cheng . The range of scientific interests of the scientist was wide, he was engaged in studying the issues of Indian Buddhism, as well as the Chinese and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism, analyzing and translating canonical works, content aspects of the teaching, etc. Among the works of Lu Cheng from the field of Tibetan Buddhist studies, in addition to the previously mentioned work Source Teaching of Tibetan Buddhism, it is necessary to note the “Collection of Materials on the history of relations between Han Buddhism and the Tibetan tradition”, a new edition of the catalog of the Great Tibetan Canon in Chinese, etc. The original teaching of Tibetan Buddhism includes 4 parts: the origin of Tibetan Buddhism, the spread of Tibetan Buddhism, written monuments of Tibetan Buddhism, and the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. This work by Lu Cheng became the reference book of all subsequent generations of Chinese Tibetologists for many years to come.
There are also works by �Li Jicheng ( Art of the Mi School of Tibetan Buddhism, Delving into the mysteries of ritual of the Mi Buddhist school.)
Wang Yao-analysis and interpretation of Buddhist texts in the Tibetan language; he is the author of a large number of publications on Tibetan Buddhism, including “The Life of Tsonghawa”, “A collection of reliable materials on the history and literature of Tibet”
Zhang Jianghua describes the” circle phenomenon ” �in Tibetan Buddhism. According to him, many phenomena in Tibetan culture – whether they are architectural objects, traditional utensils or monastic structures-have a round shape. The appearance of this phenomenon is not accidental, because it is closely related to the Buddhist view of the world. It reflects the concept of karma and the Buddhist dharma wheel, the cycle of endless rebirth. At the same time, the image of a circle-wheel is a symbol of a closed cycle, a closed, self – limiting system. Zhang Jianghua is also the author of Samsara and the Circle, a study of cultural phenomena in Tibetan Buddhism
The best place to start learning about Buddhism and Hinduism is through Jainism. First of all, it is the oldest one, already mentioned in the Vedas, so it influenced both other isms. Secondly, few people pay attention to it, and this is wrong. So you will fix this error.
Read Shunryu Suzuki's The Essence of Zen. Beginner's consciousness. A very interesting and informative book in the field of Zen Buddhism. The author of the book, you can say, single-handedly brought this movement to America, and then wrote this book.
With regard to Buddhism, I would say that modern Chinese researchers include three areas in the concept of “Chinese Buddhism”: Han Buddhism , Southern Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism.�
One of the first Chinese researchers to lay the foundation for Chinese Tibetology was Lu Cheng . The range of scientific interests of the scientist was wide, he was engaged in studying the issues of Indian Buddhism, as well as the Chinese and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism, analyzing and translating canonical works, content aspects of the teaching, etc. Among the works of Lu Cheng from the field of Tibetan Buddhist studies, in addition to the previously mentioned work Source Teaching of Tibetan Buddhism, it is necessary to note the “Collection of Materials on the history of relations between Han Buddhism and the Tibetan tradition”, a new edition of the catalog of the Great Tibetan Canon in Chinese, etc. The original teaching of Tibetan Buddhism includes 4 parts: the origin of Tibetan Buddhism, the spread of Tibetan Buddhism, written monuments of Tibetan Buddhism, and the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. This work by Lu Cheng became the reference book of all subsequent generations of Chinese Tibetologists for many years to come.
There are also works by �Li Jicheng ( Art of the Mi School of Tibetan Buddhism, Delving into the mysteries of ritual of the Mi Buddhist school.)
Wang Yao-analysis and interpretation of Buddhist texts in the Tibetan language; he is the author of a large number of publications on Tibetan Buddhism, including “The Life of Tsonghawa”, “A collection of reliable materials on the history and literature of Tibet”
Zhang Jianghua describes the” circle phenomenon ” �in Tibetan Buddhism. According to him, many phenomena in Tibetan culture – whether they are architectural objects, traditional utensils or monastic structures-have a round shape. The appearance of this phenomenon is not accidental, because it is closely related to the Buddhist view of the world. It reflects the concept of karma and the Buddhist dharma wheel, the cycle of endless rebirth. At the same time, the image of a circle-wheel is a symbol of a closed cycle, a closed, self – limiting system. Zhang Jianghua is also the author of Samsara and the Circle, a study of cultural phenomena in Tibetan Buddhism