Enlightenment in dispute : the reinvention of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth century China / Jiang Wu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The revival of Chan Buddhism in the seventeenth century -- Controversies and Chan Buddhism -- The transformation of Chan Buddhism -- The reinvention of the Chan tradition -- The context of seventeenth-century China: -- Re-envisioning Buddhism in the late Ming -- From margin to center -- Ambiguous Chan communities -- Literati and Chan Buddhism -- Wang Yangming and Chan Buddhism -- Literati's influence on Chan monks -- The advent of Chan Buddhism in Eastern Zhejiang -- The rise of Chan Buddhism -- The rise of the Linji school -- The rise of the Caodong school -- The further spread of Chan Buddhism -- Chan Buddhism within seventeenth-century Chinese society -- The principle of Chan -- Clashes among enlightened minds -- Hanyue Fazang's distinction between Tathagata Chan and Patriarch Chan -- Hanyue Fazang's encounter with Miyun Yuanwu -- Exchange of polemical essays -- Antagonism between Miyun's and Hanyue's lineages -- The divergence of interpretation -- Objectifying the subjective experience of enlightenment -- The mystery of the perfect circle: Hanyue Fazang's esotericism -- Encounter dialogue in question -- The Yongzheng Emperor and imperial intervention -- Yongzheng's journey to Chan enlightenment -- The Chan society at the imperial court -- Yongzheng's works on Buddhism -- The emperor's polemical writing -- Lineage matters -- The debate about Tianhuang Daowu and Tianwang Daowu in the late Ming -- The myth of the two Daowus -- Summary of major evidences -- The use of evidence in the debate -- Literati's initial discovery of the two Daowus -- The dispute about Muchen daomin's Chandeng Shipu -- The lawsuit about Feiyin Tongrong's Wudeng Yantong -- The publication of the Wudeng Yantong -- Accusations and responses -- The intervention of local authorities -- The aftermath -- The rebuilding of the dubious Tianwang Monastery -- Caodong monks' continuing efforts to falsify the two-Daowu theory -- The debate over the Wudeng Quanshu -- Literati's involvement -- The debate about the two Daowus in Japan -- Critical analysis -- Explaining the rise and fall of seventeenth-century Chan Buddhism -- Textual ideals and the monastic reality -- The formation of Chan textual communities: monks, literati, and rulers -- Institutional implications of dharma transmission -- The pattern of Buddhist revival in the past -- Legacies of seventeenth-century Chan Buddhism -- The place of Chan in the history of Chinese Buddhism -- The meaning of Buddhist revival revisited -- The pattern of Buddhist revival in the past.