Yongming Yanshou's conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu : a special transmission within the scriptures
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Yongming Yanshou's conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu : a special transmission within the scriptures
Oxford University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Welter gives a comprehensive study of Yanshou's life, showing how Yanshou's Buddhist identity has been and continues to be disputed. He also provides an in-depth examination of the Zongjing lu, connecting it to Chan debates ongoing at the time of its writing. This analysis includes a discussion of the seminal meaning of the term zong as the implicit truth of Chan and Buddhist teaching, and a defining notion of Chan identity. Particularly significant is an analysis of the long
underappreciated significance of the Chan fragments in the Zongjing lu, which constitute some of the earliest information about the teachings of Chan's early masters.
In light of Yanshou's advocacy of a morally based Chan Buddhist practice, Welter also challenges the way Buddhism, particularly Chan, has frequently been criticized in Neo-Confucianism as amoral and unprincipled. Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu concludes with an annotated translation of fascicle one of the Zongjing lu, the first translation of the work into a Western language.
Table of Contents
- Review quote loaded 2011
- Chapter One - Yongming Yanshou and the complexities of Chan identity
- Chapter Two - Revealing the Implicit Truth: Yongming Yanshou's Notion of Zong in the Zongjing lu
- Chapter Three - Establishing the Chan Zong: Yanshou's Notion of Chan in the Zongjing lu
- Chapter Four - Yanshou and Chan Lineages: An Overview of Chan Sources and Chan Patriarchs in the Zongjing lu
- Chapter Five - The Teachings of the Patriarchs: A Study of Chan Lineage Fragments in the Zongjing lu
- Chapter Six - The Buddhist School of Principle and the Early Song Intellectual Terrain
- Translation of the Zongjing lu, Fascicle One
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
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