Eminent nuns women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China - Grant, Beata, 1954-; NetLibrary, Inc. (Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2009)
Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-235) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Buddhist nuns -- China -- Biography; Monastic and religious life (Zen Buddhism) -- China; Zen Buddhism -- China -- History -- 17th century; Electronic books