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

By: Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 22.Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441619945
  • 1441619941
  • 9780824862886
  • 0824862880
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How Zen became Zen.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/9270951 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ9262.9.C5 S35 2008eb
Other classification:
  • 11.93
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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"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.

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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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