Screen LibraryHow Zen became Zen：the dispute over enlightenment and the formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-dynasty China
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University of Hawai'i Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Honolulu |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 22 |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 289 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780824832551 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0824832558 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780824835088 (pbk.) 0824835085 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | B946 |
| CLC: | B946.5-092 |
| Call Number: | B946.5-092/S346 |
| Contents: |
"A Kuroda Institute book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-275) and index. Chan Buddhism in the Song: some background -- The Chan school and the Song state -- Procreation and patronage in the Song Chan school -- A new Chan tradition: the reinvention of the Caodong lineage in the Song -- A dog has no Buddha-nature: Kanhua Chan and Dahui Zonggao's attacks on silent illumination -- The Caodong tradition as the target of attacks by the Linji tradition -- Silent illumination and the Caodong tradition. Morten Schlütter takes a novel approach to understanding one of the most crucial developments in Zen Buddhism: the dispute over the nature of enlightenment that erupted within the Chinese Chan (Zen) school in the 12th century. |