Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism - Hardcover

Cole, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520254848 ISBN 13: 9780520254848

Verlag: University of California Press, 2009

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Book by Cole Alan

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"A detailed study ... Cole fills in important details about the Chan patriarch fabrication from the seventh and eighth century."--Buddhadharma "[Cole] offers an exciting way to examine early Chan Buddhist literature."--Buddhist Studies Review

Reseña del editor:

This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how and why certain literary tropes were chosen to depict the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers, this analysis focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. This book argues that early Chan's image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tradition was constructed for reasons that have little to do with Buddhist practice, new styles of enlightened wisdom, or 'orthodoxy', and much more to do with politics, property, geography, and, of course, new forms of writing.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0520254848
• ISBN 13: 9780520254848
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368