Sudden and gradual : approaches to enlightenment in Chinese thought / edited by Peter N. Gregory.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gregory, Peter N., editor.

Series:

Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; Volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment (Buddhism).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 461 pages).

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1987]

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

I. The Sudden and Gradual Debates

The Mirror of the Mind

Sudden Illumination or Simultaneous Comprehension: Remarks on Chinese and Tibetan Terminology

Purifying Gold: The Metaphor of Effort and Intuition in Buddhist Thought and Practice

II. Sudden and Gradual Enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism

Tao-sheng's Theory of Sudden Enlightenment Re-examined

Sudden and Gradual Intimately Conjoined: Chih-i's T'ien-t'ai View

Shen-hui and the Teaching of Sudden Enlightenment in Early Ch'an Buddhism

Sudden Enlightenment Followed by Gradual Cultivation: Tsung-mi's Analysis of Mind

The "Short-cut" Approach of K'an-hua Meditation: The Evolution of a Practical Subitism in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism

III. Analogies in the Cultural Sphere

The Sudden and the Gradual in Chinese Poetry Criticism: An Examination of the Ch'an-Poetry Analogy

Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's "Southern and Northern Schools" in the History and Theory of Painting: A Reconsideration

Afterword

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 18, 2022).

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8248-9077-9

OCLC:

1322125494