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The Linji lu and the creation of Chan orthodoxy : the development of Chan's records of sayings literature / Albert Welter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781441695475
  • 1441695478
  • 9780198044093
  • 0198044097
  • 1283113252
  • 9781283113250
  • 9786613113252
  • 6613113255
  • 0199887055
  • 9780199887057
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Linji lu and the creation of Chan orthodoxy.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/85 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ9399.I554 L55 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Defining orthodoxy in the Chan/Zen traditions -- Tracing the elusive yulu: the origins of Chan's records of sayings -- Narration in action: early fragments of Linji's teachings -- Giving form to the formless: the formation of the Linji lu -- Strange brew: the fictional background to yulu encounter dialogues -- Toward a conclusion: the Linji lu and the process of yulu formation.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: The Linji lu, or Record of Linji, ranks among the most famous and influential texts of the Chan and Zen traditions. Ostensibly containing the teachings of the Tang dynasty figure Linji Yixuan, the text has generally been accepted at face value, as reliable records of the teachings of this historical figure. In this book, Albert Welter offers the first systematic study of the Linji lu in a western language. Welter places the Linji lu in its historical context, showing how the text was manipulated over time by the Linji faction. Rather than recording the teachings of the illustrious patriarch of.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)218088

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-221) and index.

Defining orthodoxy in the Chan/Zen traditions -- Tracing the elusive yulu: the origins of Chan's records of sayings -- Narration in action: early fragments of Linji's teachings -- Giving form to the formless: the formation of the Linji lu -- Strange brew: the fictional background to yulu encounter dialogues -- Toward a conclusion: the Linji lu and the process of yulu formation.

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The Linji lu, or Record of Linji, ranks among the most famous and influential texts of the Chan and Zen traditions. Ostensibly containing the teachings of the Tang dynasty figure Linji Yixuan, the text has generally been accepted at face value, as reliable records of the teachings of this historical figure. In this book, Albert Welter offers the first systematic study of the Linji lu in a western language. Welter places the Linji lu in its historical context, showing how the text was manipulated over time by the Linji faction. Rather than recording the teachings of the illustrious patriarch of.

English.