Zen Classics

Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-517526-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume collected original essays on koan collections, recorded sayings of individual masters, histories of major schools, and compilations of monastic regulations. The second focuses on the early history of Zen in China, providing overview assessments of many of the most important canonical texts that set the Zen tradition in motion throughout East Asia. Zen
Classics will follow that historical movement, focusing primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought this Buddhist movement to fruition. Although enormously diverse in style and structure all of the texts and genres of texts considered here were fundamental to the unfolding of Zen in East Asia. The range of
genres reveals the varieties of Zen practice, from rules of daily practice to sermons and meditation manuals. The all new essays in this volume will be contributed by an international team of distinguished scholars of Buddhism. It is aimed at a broad audience including college students, Zen practitioners, and scholars of East Asian history, religion, and culture, as well as specialists in Buddhist history.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of Buddhism and Asian religion and history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heine, Steven

Wright, Dale S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Zen-Buddhismus

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Steven Heine, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Asian Studies, Florida International University and Dale S. Wright, David B. and Mary H. Gamble Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies, Occidental College