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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Broughton, Jeffrey L., 1944-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Chinese
Published: New York : Columbia University ©2009.
Series:Translations from the Asian classics.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/brou14392
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.