Eminent nuns [electronic resource] : women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant.
Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009.Description: ix, 241 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781441619761 (electronic bk.)
- 1441619763 (electronic bk.)
- 294.3/9270820951 22
- BQ9298 .G73 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-235) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
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