| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index. |
| Summary |
Using modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, John McRae shows how a skeptical, accurate & productive assessment of Chan lineages may be made. He offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices & religious history. |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Preface; Conventions; McRae's Rules of Zen Studies; 1 Looking at Lineage: A Fresh Perspective on Chan Buddhism; 2 Beginnings: Differentiating/Connecting Bodhidharma and the East Mountain Teaching; 3 Metropolitan Chan: Imperial Patronage and the Chan Style; 4 The Riddle of Encounter Dialogue: Who, What, When, and Where?; 5 Zen and the Art of Fund-Raising: Religious Vitality and Institutional Dominance in the Song Dynasty; 6 Climax Paradigm: Cultural Polarities and Patterns of Self-Cultivation in Song-Dynasty Chan; Notes; Character Glossary; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Zen Buddhism -- China -- History.
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Zen Buddhism. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McRae, John R., 1947- Seeing through Zen. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2004 0520237978 0520237986 (DLC) 2003011741 (OCoLC)52335106 |
| ISBN |
9780520937079 (electronic book) |
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0520937074 (electronic book) |
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1417522739 (electronic book) |
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9781417522736 (electronic book) |
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9780520237971 |
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0520237978 |
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9780520237988 |
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0520237986 |
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0520237978 (alkaline paper) |
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0520237986 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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