How Zen became Zen : the dispute over enlightenment and the formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-dynasty China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schlütter, Morten
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2008]
Series:Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 22.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Chan Buddhism in the Song: some background
  • The Chan school and the Song state
  • Procreation and patronage in the Song Chan school
  • A new Chan tradition: the reinvention of the Caodong lineage in the Song
  • A dog has no Buddha-nature: Kanhua Chan and Dahui Zonggao's attacks on silent illumination
  • The Caodong tradition as the target of attacks by the Linji tradition
  • Silent illumination and the Caodong tradition.