Enlightenment in Dispute
The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20032596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jiang Wu (0000-0001-9286-4073, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, The University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 480 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Enlightenment in Dispute (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333572.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4241777800 |
| Open Library | OL10135312M |
| ISBN | 9780195333572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
This book studies the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth‐century China. Focusing on a series of controversies, this book argues that the Chan revival was a systematic reinvention of Chan ideals of the past. The revival not only reshaped Chinese Buddhism but also greatly influenced Buddhism throughout East Asia. The first controversy is the debate between Miyun Yuanwu and his dharma heir, Hanyue Fazang, in the late Ming (1550–1644) and the Yongzheng emperor's intervention in 1733. The second controversy concerns Miyun Yuanwu's dharma heir Feiyin Tongrong's Chan genealogy that rearranged conventional accepted dharma transmission lines based on dubious inscriptions and thus provoked a notorious lawsuit in 1654. At the end of this book, this book offers an explanation about the rise and fall of Chan Buddhism by examining the role of textual practice and the implications of dharma transmission in rebuilding Chan institutions. By tracing the legacies of 17th‐century Chan Buddhism in modern Chinese Buddhism and placing Chan in larger historical context, this book explores a general pattern of Buddhist revival in the history of Chinese Buddhism
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · China · Chinese buddhism · Context (archaeology) · Dharma · Emperor · Enlightenment · Gautama Buddha · Hinduism · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Buddhism - General · Buddhism - History · Religion · Religion & Beliefs · Zen · Zen buddhism
Scriptural Exegesis and Doctrinal Authority in Late Ming Buddhism
Buddhism in Chinese History
Envisioning the World Within or Without Limits
Renewal revisited
A huatou 話頭 chan buddhista meditációra vonatkozó fogalom vizsgálata X–XII. századi szövegekben
Where the Two Worlds Met
A Sinicised Religion Under Foreign Rule
Buddhist Historiography
The Expression of Chan “Emptiness Contemplation” in Hongren’s Landscape Painting
Reading Equality into Asymmetry
Plowing the Zen Field
Vernacular Language and the Wu Dialect in the Formation of a Chan Koine and the Rise of Chan/Zen Philology
Miyun Yuanwu 密雲圓悟 (1567-1642) and His Impact on 17th-Century Buddhism
Struggling to Restore a Lost Identity
Forging the Sacred
Early Chan Buddhism
Spatial Characteristics and the Non-Hierarchical Nature of Regional Religious Systems (RRSs)
Hongzan's Maitreya Belief in the Context of Late Imperial Chinese Monastic Revival and Chan Decline
The Perspective on Peace-Making of the Contemporary Chinese Buddhist Monk Jinghui 淨慧 (1933-2013)
The Meaning of the Patriarch's Coming from the West
Who Can Revive Buddhist Ordinations? Explaining the Eminence of Guxin Ruxin in Late Ming China
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |