Zen Buddhist Rhetoric in China, Korea, and Japan

ISBN-13: 9789004185562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 476 str.

Christoph Anderl

Opis

One of the key factors for the success of the Chan/Sǒn/Zen schools in East Asia was the creativity of their adherents concerning the development of innovative literary genres and the skillful application of linguistic and rhetorical devices in their textual products. From the very beginning, Zen Buddhists used literature in order to attract the attention and support of influential lay Buddhists, such as literati, officials, and members of the aristocracy. Consequently, Zen Buddhist texts had a deep and lasting impact on the development of East Asian languages, literary genres, and rhetorical devices, and more generally, on East Asian culture. In this volume, leading specialists in East Asian Buddhism and linguistics analyze the interplay of language and doctrine/ideology in Chinese Chan, Korean Sŏn, and Japanese Zen, as well as tracing developments triggered by changes in the respective sociopolitical and socio-religious contexts. As a special focus, Zen rhetoric will be related to pre-Chan Buddhist literary developments in India and China, in order to trace continuities and changes in the application of rhetorical strategies in the overall framework of Buddhist literary production. Through this diachronic and comparative approach, the great complexity and the multifaceted features of Chan/Sŏn/Zen literature is revealed.

Recenzje

'This book of collected essays is definitely a welcome volume for scholars of Chan studies.(...) Through this diachronic and comparative approach, the work aims to illustrate the great complexity and the multifaceted features of Chan literature in the respective socio-political and socio-religious contexts.(...) the rhetorical approach applied in this volume and the undeniable merits it brings to the field of Chan/Son/Zen should be regarded highly.'
Lin Pei-ying, The Eastern Buddhist , 43 (1&2: 2012)

'...a welcome edition to Zen Studies.'
Jimmy Yu, Religious Studies Review , September 2014.

Spis treści

PREFACEIX
CONTRIBUTORSXIII

CHRISTOPH ANDERL: Chán Rhetoric: An Introduction
JENS BRAARVIG: Rhetoric of Emptiness
BART DESSEIN:'Thus Have I Heard' and Other Claims to Authenticity: Development of Rhetorical Devices in the Sarvastivada Sa padabhidharma Text
CHRISTOPH HARBSMEIER: Reading the One Hundred Parables Sutra: The Dialogue Preface and the Gatha Postface
CHRISTOPH ANDERL: Coming to Terms with Terms: The Rhetorical Function of Technical Terms in Chán Buddhist Texts
HALVOR EIFRING: Beyond Perfection: The Rhetoric of Chán Poetry in Wáng Wéi's W ng Stream Collection
CHRISTIAN WITTERN: Some Preliminary Remarks to a Study of Rhetorical Devices in Chán Y lù Encounter Dialogues
WILLIAM M. BODIFORD: The Rhetoric of Chinese Language in Japanese Zen
STEVEN HEINE: D gen's Appropriation of Chinese Chán Sources: Sectarian and Non-Sectarian Rhetorical Perspectives
ROBERT BUSWELL: Pojo Chinul and Kanhwa S n : Reconciling the Language of Moderate and Radical Subitism
JÖRG PLASSEN: From Apologetics to Subversion: Some Initial Observations on S lcham's Chodong owi yohae
JONGMYUNG KIM: Hyuj ng's S n'ga kwigam and its Historical Setting and Soteriological Strategies
VLADIMIR TIKHONOV: Manhae Han Yongun's Attempt at Producing an All-Inclusive Modern Buddhist Compendium - Pulgyo Taej n
THERESE SOLLIEN: Sermons by Xu Yún - A Special Transmission Within the Scriptures

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O autorze

Christoph Anderl, Dr. Art. (2004), is currently participating in a project (Ruhr University Bochum) on the spread of Buddhist narratives and iconography along the Silk Road, as well as being Guest Professor of East Asian Linguistics at Ghent University. His publications focus on issues concerning medieval Chinese language and Buddhism, including his two-volumed Studies in the Language of Z táng jí (Oslo, Unipub 2004).