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The Koan : texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism
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The Koan : texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism

Author: Steven Heine; Dale Stuart Wright
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Arguing that our understanding of the koan tradition has been extremely limited, this collection  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Steven Heine; Dale Stuart Wright
ISBN: 0195117484 9780195117486 0195117492 9780195117493
OCLC Number: 41090651
Description: xii, 322 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The form and function of Koan literature: a historical overview / T. Griffith Foulk --
The antecedents of encounter dialogue in Chinese Chʻan Buddhism / John R. McRae --
Mahākāsyapa's smile: silent transmission and the Kung-an (Kōan) tradition / Albert Welter --
Kung-an Chʻan and the Tsung-men tʻung-yao chi / Ishii Shūdō --
Visions, divisions, revisions: the encounter between iconoclasm and supernaturalism in Kōan cases about Mount Wu-tʻai / Steven Heine --
"Before the empty eon" versus "A dog has no Buddha-nature": Kung-an use in the Tsʻao-tung tradition and Ta-hui's Kung-an introspection Chʻan / Morten Schlütter --
Kōan history: transformative language in Chinese Buddhist thought / Dale S. Wright --
Ikkyū and Kōans / Alexander Kabanoff --
Transmission of Kirigami (secret initiation documents): a Sōtō practice in medieval Japan / Ishikawa Rikizan --
Emerging from nonduality: Kōan practice in the Rinzai tradition since Hakuin / Michel Mohr --
Kōan and Kenshō in the Rinzai Zen curriculum / G. Victor Sōgen Hori.
Responsibility: edited by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright.
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Those with a serious interest in the history of Zen Buddhism will find the essays collected here an invaluable resource ... appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate libraries. Religious Read more...

 
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