Enlightenment in dispute : the reinvention of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wu, Jiang, 1969-
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=0981643dce3b40aa9ad4f2327d13b0ad
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xix, 457 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-439) and index.
ISBN: 9780199715404
9780199895564
Index Number: BQ9262
CLC: B949.2
Contents: 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.