Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism - Rilegato

Cole, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0520254848 ISBN 13: 9780520254848

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2009

Riassunto

This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how and why certain literary tropes were chosen to depict the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers, this analysis focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. This book argues that early Chan's image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tradition was constructed for reasons that have little to do with Buddhist practice, new styles of enlightened wisdom, or 'orthodoxy', and much more to do with politics, property, geography, and, of course, new forms of writing.

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0520254848
• ISBN 13: 9780520254848
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 340