Reimagining Chan Buddhism: Sheng Yen and the Creation of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan

ISBN-13: 9781032048444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Jimmy Yu

Opis

This book is the first socio-intellectual history of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan (Zen), a new form of Buddhism founded by the late Chinese Buddhist cleric, Sheng Yen (1931-2009)—arguably one of the most influential Chan masters in contemporary times.

Spis treści

Introduction: Biography, History, and Positionality  1. A Life of Contingencies and Crises  2. An Imagined Orthodoxy  3. Chan as the Doctrinal Culmination of the Han Transmission of Chinese Buddhism  4. Chan as the Experiential Fulfillment of the Han Transmission of Chinese Buddhism  Conclusion

O autorze

Jimmy Yu is Associate Professor of Chinese Buddhism and Religions in the Department of Religion, Florida State University, USA.