Zongmi on Chan:
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Main Author: Broughton, Jeffrey Lyle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2009
Series:Translations from the Asian Classics
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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 embedded in canonical word and that one who transmits Cha
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (372 p)
ISBN:9780231513081

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