Screen LibraryEnlightenment in dispute：the reinvention of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 457 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780195333572 (cloth) 0195333578 (cloth) |
| Index Number: | B949 |
| CLC: |
B949.2 B946.5-092 |
| Call Number: | B946.5-092/W959 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-439) and index. Introduction -- The context of seventeenth-century China -- Reenvisioning Buddhism in the late Ming -- The Literati and Chan Buddhism -- The rise of Chan Buddhism -- The principle of Chan -- Clashes among enlightened minds -- The divergence of interpretation -- The Yongzheng Emperor and imperial intervention -- Lineage matters -- The debate about Tianhuang Daowu and Tianwang Daowu in the late Ming -- The lawsuit about Feiyin Tongrong's Wudeng yantong in the early Qing -- The aftermath -- Critical analysis -- Explaining the rise and fall of Chan Buddhism -- The pattern of Buddhist revival in the past -- Concluding remarks. |