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Seeing through Zen : encounter, transformation, and genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism

Author: John R McRae
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Using modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, John McRae shows how a skeptical, accurate & productive assessment of Chan lineages may be made. He offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices & religious history.
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John R McRae
ISBN: 0520237978 9780520237971 0520237986 9780520237988
OCLC Number: 52335106
Notes: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--1st prelim. p.
Description: xx, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: McRae's rules of Zen studies --
Looking at lineage : a fresh perspective on Chan Buddhism --
Beginnings : differentiating/connecting Bodhidharma and the East mountain teaching --
Metropolitan Chan : imperial patronage and the Chan Style --
The riddle of encounter dialogue : Who, What, When, and Where? --
Zen and the art of fund-raising : religious vitality and institutional dominance in the Song Dynasty --
Climax paradigm : cultural polarities and patterns of self-cultivation in Song-Dynasty Chan.
Responsibility: John R. McRae.
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Using modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, John McRae shows how a skeptical, accurate & productive assessment of Chan lineages may be made. He offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices & religious history.

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