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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520937079
  • 0520937074
  • 1417522739
  • 9781417522736
  • 9780520237971
  • 0520237978
  • 9780520237988
  • 0520237986
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seeing through Zen.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/927/0951 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ9262.5 .M367 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Illustrations; Preface; Conventions; McRae's Rules of Zen Studies; 1 Looking at Lineage: A Fresh Perspective on Chan Buddhism; 2 Beginnings: Differentiating/Connecting Bodhidharma and the East Mountain Teaching; 3 Metropolitan Chan: Imperial Patronage and the Chan Style; 4 The Riddle of Encounter Dialogue: Who, What, When, and Where?; 5 Zen and the Art of Fund-Raising: Religious Vitality and Institutional Dominance in the Song Dynasty; 6 Climax Paradigm: Cultural Polarities and Patterns of Self-Cultivation in Song-Dynasty Chan; Notes; Character Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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.

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

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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.

Illustrations; Preface; Conventions; McRae's Rules of Zen Studies; 1 Looking at Lineage: A Fresh Perspective on Chan Buddhism; 2 Beginnings: Differentiating/Connecting Bodhidharma and the East Mountain Teaching; 3 Metropolitan Chan: Imperial Patronage and the Chan Style; 4 The Riddle of Encounter Dialogue: Who, What, When, and Where?; 5 Zen and the Art of Fund-Raising: Religious Vitality and Institutional Dominance in the Song Dynasty; 6 Climax Paradigm: Cultural Polarities and Patterns of Self-Cultivation in Song-Dynasty Chan; Notes; Character Glossary; Bibliography; Index.