Verfasst von:	Cole, Alan [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Patriarchs on paper
Titelzusatz:	a critical history of medieval Chan literature
Verf.angabe:	Alan Cole
Verlagsort:	Oakland, California
Verlag:	University of California Press
E-Jahr:	2016
Jahr:	[2016]
Umfang:	xvii, 320 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-0-520-28407-4
	978-0-520-28406-7
	978-0-520-95975-0
Abstract:	"Chan Buddhism--better known as 'Zen'--produced an enormous amount of literature, and yet many Chan advocates, medieval and modern, insist that Chan and its truths can be found in neither language nor literature. Patriarchs on Paper explores this paradox by considering several genres of Chan literature that appeared during the Tang and Song dynasties (c. 600-1300), including genealogies, biographies, dialogues, poems, monastic handbooks, and koans. Looking carefully at this body of literature, Alan Cole shows how Chan authors gradually constructed, in ever more artful portrayals, images of the perfectly simple masters of the past, best known for their freedom from literature and cultural norms. Patriarchs on Paper explores how this kind of 'fantasy Buddhism' interacted with its more traditional Chinese forms and in so doing sheds new light on how Chan's illustrious ancestors were created in literature to satisfy a wide range of agendas"--Provided by publisher
	Introduction: Chan - what is it? -- Making history : Chan as an art form -- Plans for the past : early accounts of how perfect truth came to China -- Portable ancestors : Bodhidharma gets two new families -- More local Buddhas appear : Jingjue, Huineng, Shenhui -- Truth, conspiracy, and careful writing : a new version of Huineng -- The Platform Sutra and other conspiracy theories -- Chan "dialogues" from the Tang Dynasty -- Chan compendiums from the Song Dynasty -- Rules for purity : handbooks for running Chan monasteries -- Koans and being there -- Conclusions : Chan, a Buddhist beauty
Schlagwörter:	(s)Chinesisch    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Zen-Buddhismus    / (z)Geschichte 600-1300
	(s)Zen-Buddhismus    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Chinesisch    / (z)Geschichte 600-1300
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-AusgabeCole, Alan, 1964- author: Patriarchs on paper. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] |(DLC)2016023440
K10plus-PPN:	860111601