The letters of Chan master Dahui Pujue
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The letters of Chan master Dahui Pujue
Oxford University Press, c2017
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"Letters of Dahui is a compilation of sixty-two letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲;1089-1163)"--P. 2
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-379) and index
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Description
The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of the elite class in Chinese society, and to two Chan masters, these letters are dharma talks on how to engage in Buddhist cultivation. Each of the letters to laymen is fascinating as a document
directed to a specific scholar-official with his distinctive niche, high or low, in the Song-dynasty social-political landscape, and his idiosyncratic stage of development on the Buddhist path. Dahui is engaging, incisive, and often quite humorous in presenting his teaching of "constantly lifting to
awareness the phrase (huatou)," his favored phrases being No (wu) and dried turd. Throughout one's busy twenty-four hours, the practitioner is not to perform any mental operation whatsoever on this phrase, and to "take awakening as the standard."
This epistolary compilation has long constituted a self-contained course of study for Chan practitioners. For centuries, Letters of Dahui has been revered throughout East Asia. It has exerted a formative influence on Linji Chan practice in China, molded Son practice in Korea, and played a key role in Hakuin (Rinzai) Zen in Japan. Jeffrey Broughton's translation, has made extensive use of Mujaku Dochu's (1653-1744) insightful commentary on Letters of Dahui, Pearl in
the Wicker-Basket.
Table of Contents
- ABBREVIATIONS
- LETTERS OF CHAN MASTER DAHUI PUJUE VOLUME ONE
- CONTINUED [THIRD LETTER IN REPLY TO VICE MINISTER CENG]
- LETTERS OF CHAN MASTER DAHUI PUJUE VOLUME TWO
- FIVE-MOUNTAINS (GOZAN) EDITION OF LETTERS OF CHAN MASTER DAHUI PUJUE (DAHUI PUJUE CHANSHI SHU/DAIE FUKAKU ZENJI SHO)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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