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Seeing through Zen : encounter, transformation, and genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism / John R. McRae.

By: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xx, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520237978 (alk. paper)
  • 9780520237971 (alk. paper)
  • 0520237986 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520237988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3/927/0951 21
LOC classification:
  • BQ9262.5 .M367 2003
Contents:
McRae's rules of Zen studies -- Looking at lineage : a fresh perspective on Chan Buddhism -- Beginnings : differentiating/connecting Bodhidharma and the East mountain teaching -- Metropolitan Chan : imperial patronage and the Chan Style -- The riddle of encounter dialogue : Who, What, When, and Where? -- Zen and the art of fund-raising : religious vitality and institutional dominance in the Song Dynasty -- Climax paradigm : cultural polarities and patterns of self-cultivation in Song-Dynasty Chan.
Summary: Using modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, John McRae shows how a skeptical, accurate & productive assessment of Chan lineages may be made. He offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices & religious history.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks BQ9262.5 .M367 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--1st prelim. p. TBC00001209

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--1st prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-193) and index.

McRae's rules of Zen studies -- Looking at lineage : a fresh perspective on Chan Buddhism -- Beginnings : differentiating/connecting Bodhidharma and the East mountain teaching -- Metropolitan Chan : imperial patronage and the Chan Style -- The riddle of encounter dialogue : Who, What, When, and Where? -- Zen and the art of fund-raising : religious vitality and institutional dominance in the Song Dynasty -- Climax paradigm : cultural polarities and patterns of self-cultivation in Song-Dynasty Chan.

Using modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, John McRae shows how a skeptical, accurate & productive assessment of Chan lineages may be made. He offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices & religious history.

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