Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Reihe: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
ISBN: 978-0-8248-9390-3
Verlag: Cornell University (Ceas)
Drawing from hagiography, ritual manuals, material culture, and the many hitherto rarely studied meditation manuals translated from Indic sources into Chinese or composed in China in the 400s, Greene argues that during this era meditation and the mastery of meditation came for the first time to occupy a real place in the Chinese Buddhist social world. Heirs to wider traditions that had been shared across India and Central Asia, early medieval Chinese Buddhists conceived of "chan" as something that would produce a special state of visionary sensitivity. The concrete visionary experiences that resulted from meditation were understood as things that could then be interpreted, by a qualified master, as indicative of the mediator’s purity or impurity. Buddhist meditation, though an elite discipline that only a small number of Chinese Buddhists themselves undertook, was thus in practice and in theory constitutively integrated into the cultic worlds of divination and "repentance" (chanhui) that were so important within the medieval Chinese religious world as a whole.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus