Schlütter, Morten.

How Zen became Zen : the dispute over enlightenment and the formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-dynasty China / Morten Schlütter. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (x, 289 pages). - Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 22 . - Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 22. .

"A Kuroda Institute book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index.

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.

Morten Schlütter takes a novel approach to understanding one of the most crucial developments in Zen Buddhism: the dispute over the nature of enlightenment that erupted within the Chinese Chan (Zen) school in the 12th century.

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Zen Buddhism--History.--China
PHILOSOPHY--Zen.
RELIGION--Buddhism--Zen.
RELIGION--Buddhism--General.
Zen Buddhism.
Zen-Buddhismus
Songdynastie


China.
China.


Electronic books.
History.

BQ9262.9.C5 / S35 2008eb

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