Eminent nuns : women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Beata, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist nuns--China--Biography.

Buddhist nuns.

Monastic and religious life (Zen Buddhism)--China.

Monastic and religious life (Zen Buddhism).

Zen Buddhism--China--History--17th century.

Zen Buddhism.

History.

China.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 241 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]

Contents:

Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts

Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks

The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang

Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar

Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang

From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche

From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong

Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu

From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-235) and index.

ISBN:

9780824832025

0824832027

OCLC:

213407339