The Koan : texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism / edited by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heine, Steven, 1950- editor.

Wright, Dale Stuart, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Koan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 322 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays collected in this volume argue that our understanding of the Koan tradition has been severely limited. The authors try to undermine stereotypes and problematic interpretations by examining unrecognized factors in the formation of this tradition.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction: Koan Tradition-Self-Narrative and Contemporary Perspectives; 1. The Form and Function of Koan Literature: A Historical Overview; 2. The Antecedents of Encounter Dialogue in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism; 3. Mahākāsyapa's Smile: Silent Transmission and the Kung-an (Koan) Tradition; 4. Kung-an Ch'an and the Tsung-men t'ung-yao chi; 5. Visions, Divisions, Revisions: The Encounter between Iconoclasm and Supernaturalism in Koan Cases about Mount Wu-t'ai

6. ""Before the Empty Eon"" versus ""A Dog Has No Buddha-Nature"": Kung-an Use in the Ts'ao-tung Tradition and Ta-hui's Kung-an Introspection Ch'an; 7. Koan History: Transformative Language in Chinese Buddhist Thought; 8. Ikkyu and Koans; 9. Transmission of Kirigami (Secret Initiation Documents): A Soto Practice in Medieval Japan; 10. Emerging from Nonduality: Koan Practice in the Rinzai Tradition since Hakuin; 11. Koan and Kensho in the Rinzai Zen Curriculum; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028352-1

0-19-774152-5

1-280-47096-8

0-19-802780-X

1-4237-3898-5

OCLC:

466428862