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Yongming Yanshou's conception of Chan in the Zongjing Lu : a special transmission within the scriptures / Albert Welter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welter, Albert, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yanshou, 904-975. Zong jing lu.
- Yanshou.
- Zen Buddhism--China--History.
- Zen Buddhism.
- Zen Buddhism--Doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing their critical role in the contested Buddhist and intellectual territories of the Five Dynasties and early Song dynasty China.
- Contents:
- Yongming Yanshou and the complexities of Chan identity
- Revealing the implicit truth: Yongming Yanshou's notion of zong in the Zongjing lu
- Establishing the Chan zong: Yanshou's notion of Chan in the Zongjing lu
- Yanshou and Chan lineages: an overview of Chan sources and Chan patriarchs in the Zongjing lu
- The teachings of the patriarchs: a study of Chan lineage fragments in the Zongjing lu
- The Buddhist school of principle and the early Song intellectual terrain
- Translation of the Zongjing lu, fascicle one.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613057808
- 1-283-05780-8
- 0-19-984240-X
- OCLC:
- 772953615
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