Discerning Buddhas: Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism
In Song-period China (960-1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan's appeal to...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
New York, NY
Columbia University Press
[2024]
|
| Schriftenreihe: | The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
|
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | DE-473 Volltext |
| Zusammenfassung: | In Song-period China (960-1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan's appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha?Discerning Buddhas argues that Chan Buddhists wove together tropes of sovereignty, hospitality, and martial heroism drawn from both Buddhist tradition and China's cultural heritage to develop a distinctive vision of what it meant for a Chan master to be a buddha in Song-period China. Kevin Buckelew analyzes the ways Chan Buddhists deployed such tropes in ritual, literature, and visual culture in order to stage the comparison of Chan mastery with buddhahood. He examines how they used the concept of buddhahood to work through questions about the ideal Chan master's authority, agency, and masculinity, in the process rendering buddhahood in terms highly legible to elite Chinese society.Chan Buddhists, Buckelew shows, developed their own "signature" of buddhahood, according to which enlightened Chan masters who truly deserved comparison to the Buddha were supposed to be distinguished from everyone else. By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society |
| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource 2 b&w illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780231560269 |
| DOI: | 10.7312/buck21424 |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000zc 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV050167803 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 007 | cr|uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 250214s2024 xx a||| o|||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780231560269 |9 978-0-231-56026-9 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.7312/buck21424 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (ZDB-23-DGG)9780231560269 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV050167803 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-473 | ||
| 082 | 0 | |a 294.3/9270951 |2 23//eng/20240726eng | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Buckelew, Kevin |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Discerning Buddhas |b Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism |c Kevin Buckelew |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY |b Columbia University Press |c [2024] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c 2024 | |
| 300 | |a 1 Online-Ressource |b 2 b&w illustrations | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies | |
| 500 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025) | ||
| 520 | |a In Song-period China (960-1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan's appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha?Discerning Buddhas argues that Chan Buddhists wove together tropes of sovereignty, hospitality, and martial heroism drawn from both Buddhist tradition and China's cultural heritage to develop a distinctive vision of what it meant for a Chan master to be a buddha in Song-period China. Kevin Buckelew analyzes the ways Chan Buddhists deployed such tropes in ritual, literature, and visual culture in order to stage the comparison of Chan mastery with buddhahood. He examines how they used the concept of buddhahood to work through questions about the ideal Chan master's authority, agency, and masculinity, in the process rendering buddhahood in terms highly legible to elite Chinese society.Chan Buddhists, Buckelew shows, developed their own "signature" of buddhahood, according to which enlightened Chan masters who truly deserved comparison to the Buddha were supposed to be distinguished from everyone else. By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society | ||
| 546 | |a In English | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a RELIGION / Buddhism / History |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Authority |x Religious aspects |x Buddhism |2 DLC. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Authority |x Religious aspects |x Buddhism | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Masculinity |x Religious aspects |x Buddhism |2 DLC. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Masculinity |x Religious aspects |x Buddhism | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Zen Buddhism |z China |x History |2 DLC. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Zen Buddhism |z China |x History | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.7312/buck21424?locatt=mode:legacy |x Verlag |z URL des Erstveröffentlichers |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a ZDB-23-DGG | ||
| 940 | 1 | |q FHA_PDA_EMB | |
| 943 | 1 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-035503791 | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7312/buck21424?locatt=mode:legacy |l DE-473 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q UBG_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1824508306834587648 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | |
| any_adam_object | |
| author | Buckelew, Kevin |
| author_facet | Buckelew, Kevin |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Buckelew, Kevin |
| author_variant | k b kb |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV050167803 |
| collection | ZDB-23-DGG |
| ctrlnum | (ZDB-23-DGG)9780231560269 (DE-599)BVBBV050167803 |
| dewey-full | 294.3/9270951 |
| dewey-hundreds | 200 - Religion |
| dewey-ones | 294 - Religions of Indic origin |
| dewey-raw | 294.3/9270951 |
| dewey-search | 294.3/9270951 |
| dewey-sort | 3294.3 79270951 |
| dewey-tens | 290 - Other religions |
| discipline | Theologie / Religionswissenschaften |
| doi_str_mv | 10.7312/buck21424 |
| format | Electronic eBook |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>00000nam a2200000zc 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV050167803</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr|uuu---uuuuu</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">250214s2024 xx a||| o|||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780231560269</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-231-56026-9</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.7312/buck21424</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(ZDB-23-DGG)9780231560269</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV050167803</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-473</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">294.3/9270951</subfield><subfield code="2">23//eng/20240726eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Buckelew, Kevin</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Discerning Buddhas</subfield><subfield code="b">Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism</subfield><subfield code="c">Kevin Buckelew</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">New York, NY</subfield><subfield code="b">Columbia University Press</subfield><subfield code="c">[2024]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">2024</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 Online-Ressource</subfield><subfield code="b">2 b&w illustrations</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In Song-period China (960-1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan's appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha?Discerning Buddhas argues that Chan Buddhists wove together tropes of sovereignty, hospitality, and martial heroism drawn from both Buddhist tradition and China's cultural heritage to develop a distinctive vision of what it meant for a Chan master to be a buddha in Song-period China. Kevin Buckelew analyzes the ways Chan Buddhists deployed such tropes in ritual, literature, and visual culture in order to stage the comparison of Chan mastery with buddhahood. He examines how they used the concept of buddhahood to work through questions about the ideal Chan master's authority, agency, and masculinity, in the process rendering buddhahood in terms highly legible to elite Chinese society.Chan Buddhists, Buckelew shows, developed their own "signature" of buddhahood, according to which enlightened Chan masters who truly deserved comparison to the Buddha were supposed to be distinguished from everyone else. By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">RELIGION / Buddhism / History</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Authority</subfield><subfield code="x">Religious aspects</subfield><subfield code="x">Buddhism</subfield><subfield code="2">DLC.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Authority</subfield><subfield code="x">Religious aspects</subfield><subfield code="x">Buddhism</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Masculinity</subfield><subfield code="x">Religious aspects</subfield><subfield code="x">Buddhism</subfield><subfield code="2">DLC.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Masculinity</subfield><subfield code="x">Religious aspects</subfield><subfield code="x">Buddhism</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Zen Buddhism</subfield><subfield code="z">China</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="2">DLC.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Zen Buddhism</subfield><subfield code="z">China</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7312/buck21424?locatt=mode:legacy</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="z">URL des Erstveröffentlichers</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="940" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="q">FHA_PDA_EMB</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-035503791</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7312/buck21424?locatt=mode:legacy</subfield><subfield code="l">DE-473</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">UBG_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV050167803 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2025-02-19T17:38:32Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9780231560269 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-035503791 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-473 DE-BY-UBG |
| owner_facet | DE-473 DE-BY-UBG |
| physical | 1 Online-Ressource 2 b&w illustrations |
| psigel | ZDB-23-DGG FHA_PDA_EMB ZDB-23-DGG UBG_PDA_DGG |
| publishDate | 2024 |
| publishDateSearch | 2024 |
| publishDateSort | 2024 |
| publisher | Columbia University Press |
| record_format | marc |
| series2 | The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies |
| spelling | Buckelew, Kevin Verfasser aut Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism Kevin Buckelew New York, NY Columbia University Press [2024] 2024 1 Online-Ressource 2 b&w illustrations txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025) In Song-period China (960-1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan's appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha?Discerning Buddhas argues that Chan Buddhists wove together tropes of sovereignty, hospitality, and martial heroism drawn from both Buddhist tradition and China's cultural heritage to develop a distinctive vision of what it meant for a Chan master to be a buddha in Song-period China. Kevin Buckelew analyzes the ways Chan Buddhists deployed such tropes in ritual, literature, and visual culture in order to stage the comparison of Chan mastery with buddhahood. He examines how they used the concept of buddhahood to work through questions about the ideal Chan master's authority, agency, and masculinity, in the process rendering buddhahood in terms highly legible to elite Chinese society.Chan Buddhists, Buckelew shows, developed their own "signature" of buddhahood, according to which enlightened Chan masters who truly deserved comparison to the Buddha were supposed to be distinguished from everyone else. By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society In English RELIGION / Buddhism / History bisacsh Authority Religious aspects Buddhism DLC. Authority Religious aspects Buddhism Masculinity Religious aspects Buddhism DLC. Masculinity Religious aspects Buddhism Zen Buddhism China History DLC. Zen Buddhism China History https://doi.org/10.7312/buck21424?locatt=mode:legacy Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Buckelew, Kevin Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism RELIGION / Buddhism / History bisacsh Authority Religious aspects Buddhism DLC. Authority Religious aspects Buddhism Masculinity Religious aspects Buddhism DLC. Masculinity Religious aspects Buddhism Zen Buddhism China History DLC. Zen Buddhism China History |
| title | Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism |
| title_auth | Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism |
| title_exact_search | Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism |
| title_full | Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism Kevin Buckelew |
| title_fullStr | Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism Kevin Buckelew |
| title_full_unstemmed | Discerning Buddhas Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism Kevin Buckelew |
| title_short | Discerning Buddhas |
| title_sort | discerning buddhas authority agency and masculinity in chan buddhism |
| title_sub | Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism |
| topic | RELIGION / Buddhism / History bisacsh Authority Religious aspects Buddhism DLC. Authority Religious aspects Buddhism Masculinity Religious aspects Buddhism DLC. Masculinity Religious aspects Buddhism Zen Buddhism China History DLC. Zen Buddhism China History |
| topic_facet | RELIGION / Buddhism / History Authority Religious aspects Buddhism Masculinity Religious aspects Buddhism Zen Buddhism China History |
| url | https://doi.org/10.7312/buck21424?locatt=mode:legacy |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT buckelewkevin discerningbuddhasauthorityagencyandmasculinityinchanbuddhism |