Chan Buddhism

by Hershock, Peter D.

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Full title :Chan Buddhism / Peter D. Hershock.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Hawai'i Press
Place of Publication:Honolulu
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 173 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0824828356, 9780824828356, 0824827805, 9780824827809
oclc:on1026352530
LC Classification:BQ9262.9.C5
Dewey Decimal:294.3/927/0951

Ch. 1. The buddhist roots of chan -- The Indian birth of Buddhist thought and practice -- The Buddha's root teachings -- The four noble truths -- The teaching of the three marks -- The teaching of Karma -- The ecology of awakening, the diversity of Buddhist paths -- The historical spread of Buddhism into China and the birth of Chinese Buddhism -- ch. 2. Differences in Indian and Chinese cultural contexts -- The disparate meaning of being dead in India and China -- The complementary systems of early Chinese religiousness -- Confucianism -- Daoism -- ch. 3. Early developments in Chinese Buddhism -- Texts and contexts, the phase of accommodation -- Adaptation and authority, the phase of advocacy -- The first schools of Chinese Buddhism -- Tiantai (heavenly terrace) -- Huayen (flower ornament) -- Chingde (pure land) -- From orthodoxy to orthopraxy, the crucial tide change in Chinese Buddhism -- ch. 4. The early history of the Chan tradition -- ch. 5. Exemplars of Chan, homegrown Buddhas -- Bodhidharma -- Huineng -- Mazu -- Linji -- ch. 6. Chan practice as philosophy and spirituality -- Relinquishing all limits to relevance, responsibility, and readiness: -- Chan non-duality -- Meditat…