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Illusory abiding : the cultural construction of the Chan monk Zhongfeng Mingben / Natasha Heller.
LIBRA BQ9262.9.C5 H64 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heller, Natasha, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 368.
- Harvard East Asian monographs
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zen Buddhism--Social aspects--China--History.
- Zen Buddhism.
- Mingben, Shi, 1263-1323.
- Mingben.
- Zen Buddhism--Social aspects.
- History.
- China.
- Zhongfeng Mingben, 1263-1323.
- Local Subjects:
- Zhongfeng Mingben, 1263-1323.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 471 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 Floating Light and Illusory Shadows: The Life of a Monk 25
- 2 Places and Patrons: The View from Mount Tianmu 87
- 3 Beneath Thatched Roofs and amid Waves: Reclusion in the Chan Imagination 130
- 4 To Place One's Mind in the Assembly: Rules of Purity for the Cloister of Illusory Abiding 175
- 5 Raising Old Expedients: Genealogies, Gongan, and the Chan Literary Tradition 222
- 6 Body and Mind Like an Iron Wall: The Huatou in Practice 271
- 7 Brushes and Inkstones: Poetry, Calligraphy, and the Art of Cultural Exchange 309
- 8 Capturing Charisma: The Role of Portraits and Inscriptions 356.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674417113
- 0674417119
- OCLC:
- 876010462
- Publisher Number:
- 40024292307
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