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Zongmi on Chan

Release on 2009-05-14 | by Jeffrey Lyle Broughton

As Broughton shows, the sutra-based Chan of Zongmi and Yanshou was much more normative in the East Asian world than previously believed, and readers who seek a deeper, more complete understanding of the Chan tradition will experience a ...

Author: Jeffrey Lyle Broughton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231513081
Category: Religion
Page: 376
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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 an annotated translation of Zongmi's magnum opus, the Chan Prolegomenon, along with translations of his Chan Letter and Chan Notes. The Chan Prolegomenon persuasively argues that Chan "axiom realizations" are identical to the teachings embedded in canonical word and that one who transmits Chan must use the sutras and treatises as a standard. Japanese Rinzai Zen has, since the Edo period, marginalized the sutra-based Chan of the Chan Prolegomenon and its successor text, the Mind Mirror (Zongjinglu) of Yongming Yanshou (904-976). This book contains the first in-depth treatment in English of the neglected Mind Mirror, positioning it as a restatement of Zongmi's work for a Song dynasty audience. The ideas and models of the Chan Prolegomenon, often disseminated in East Asia through the conduit of the Mind Mirror, were highly influential in the Chan traditions of Song and Ming China, Korea from the late Koryo onward, and Kamakura-Muromachi Japan. In addition, Tangut-language translations of Zongmi's Chan Prolegomenon and Chan Letter constitute the very basis of the Chan tradition of the state of Xixia. As Broughton shows, the sutra-based Chan of Zongmi and Yanshou was much more normative in the East Asian world than previously believed, and readers who seek a deeper, more complete understanding of the Chan tradition will experience a surprising reorientation in this book.

Language: en
Pages: 376

Zongmi on Chan

Authors: Jeffrey Lyle Broughton

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-14 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

Language: en
Pages: 305

The Power of Patriarchs

Authors: Elizabeth A. Morrison

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: BRILL

A study of the Northern Song Chan monk Qisong and his writings on Chan lineage, this book offers new arguments about Buddhist patriarchs, challenges assumptions about Chan masters, and provides insight into the interactions of Buddhists and the imperial court.

Language: en
Pages: 334

Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

Authors: Asian Religions University of Winnipeg Albert Welter Professor

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school began when, in seventh-century China, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. It has