Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond

A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43191-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 165, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

Chán Buddhism in Dunhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Chán scholar John McRae and investigates the spread of early Chán in a historical, multi-lingual, and interreligious context. Combining the expertise of scholars of Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, and Tangut Buddhism, the edited volume is based on a thorough study of manuscripts from Dunhuáng, Turfan, and Karakhoto, tracing the particular features of Chán in the Northwestern and Northern regions of late medieval China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderl, Christoph

Wittern, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Chán Buddhism in an Inter-religious and Cross-linguistic perspective

Christoph Anderl

Part 1 Early Chán History Revisited

1 Early Chán Revisited: A Critical Reading of Dàoxuán’s Hagiographies of Bodhidharma, Huìke and Their Associates

John Jorgensen

2 Northern Chán and the Siddha? Songs

Christoph Anderl and Henrik H. Sørensen

Part 2 The Spread of Chán in the Northwestern Region

3 The Old Uigur Translation of the Siddha? Songs

Peter Zieme

4 Reconsidering Tibetan Chán

Sam van Schaik

5 The Great Master Tongli: The Texts by a Liáo Buddhist Master among the Khara-Khoto Findings

Kirill Solonin

Part 3 Chán in an Interreligious Perspective

6 The Meeting and Conflation of Chán and Esoteric Buddhism during the Táng

Henrik H. Sørensen

7 Buddho–Daoist Interaction as Creative Dialogue: The Mind and Dào in Twofold Mystery Teaching

Friederike Assandri

John R. McRae: A Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph Anderl, Ph.D. (2005), is Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at Ghent University. He has published in the fields of Chinese Historical Linguistics, Dunhuáng manuscript studies, Chán Buddhism, and Digital Humanities.

Christian Wittern, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor at the Institute of Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. He has published in the fields of Chán Buddhist historical works and Digital Humanities, in addition of being the director of several large database projects.

Contributors are Christoph Anderl, Friederike Assandri, John Jorgensen, Sam van Schaik, Kirill Solonin, Henrik Sørensen, Christian Wittern, Peter Zieme