Zongmi on Chan
Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning (gakumon) in Buddhism and personal experience (taiken) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the first time in English, Jeffrey Broughton presents an annotated translation of Zongmi's magnum opus, the Chan Prolegomenon, along with translations of his Chan Letter and Chan Notes. The Chan Prolegomenon persuasively argues that Chan ""axiom realiz…
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- Full title :Zongmi on Chan / Jeffrey Lyle Broughton.
Summary
Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning (gakumon) in Buddhism and personal experience (taiken) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the first time in English, Jeffrey Broughton presents an annotated translation of Zongmi's magnum opus, the Chan Prolegomenon, along with translations of his Chan Letter and Chan Notes. The Chan Prolegomenon persuasively argues that Chan ""axiom realizations"" are identical to the teachings
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- Publication Date:©2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231513081, 0231513089
- DOI:10.7312/brou14392
- oclc:ocn681933050
- LC Classification:BQ8249.T787
- Dewey Decimal:294.3/9270951
Table of Contents
Biographical sketch of Guifeng Zongmi : an erudite Chan monk -- Zongmi's four works on Chan -- Influence of the Chan prolegomenon and Chan letter in Song China, the Kingdom of Xixia, Koryo Korea, and Kamakura-Muromachi Japan -- Guifeng Chan: an assessment -- Translation of the Chan letter -- Translation of the Chan prolegomenon -- Translation of the Chan notes.
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