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Author Welter, Albert, 1952-

Title Yongming Yanshou's conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu : a special transmission within the scriptures / Albert Welter
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 381 pages)
Series Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Religion module
Contents Yongming Yanshou and the complexities of Chan identity -- Revealing the implicit truth: Yongming Yanshou's notion of zong in the Zongjing lu -- Establishing the Chan zong: Yanshou's notion of Chan in the Zongjing lu -- Yanshou and Chan lineages: an overview of Chan sources and Chan patriarchs in the Zongjing lu -- The teachings of the patriarchs: a study of Chan lineage fragments in the Zongjing lu -- The Buddhist school of principle and the early Song intellectual terrain -- Translation of the Zongjing lu, fascicle one
Summary Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing their critical role in the contested Buddhist and intellectual territories of the Five Dynasties and early Song dynasty China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Yanshou, 904-975. Zong jing lu.
SUBJECT Zong jing lu (Yanshou) fast
Subject Zen Buddhism -- China -- History
Zen Buddhism -- Doctrines
Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism -- Doctrines
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Yanshou, 904-975. Zong jing lu.
ISBN 9780199897322
0199897328