How Zen became Zen : the dispute over enlightenment and the formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-dynasty China

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How Zen became Zen : the dispute over enlightenment and the formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-dynasty China

Morten Schlütter

(Studies in East Asian Buddhism, 22)

University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2008

  • : hardcover

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A Kuroda Institute Book

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"A Kuroda Institute book"

Bibliography: p. 251-275

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Chan Buddhism in the Song : some background
  • The Chan school and the Song state
  • Procreation and patronage in the Song Chan school
  • A new Chan tradition : the reinvention of the Caodong lineage in the Song
  • A dog has no Buddha-nature : Kanhua Chan and Dahui Zonggao's attacks on silent illumination
  • The Caodong tradition as the target of attacks by the Linji tradition
  • Silent illumination and the Caodong tradition

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