Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way
Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
ISBN: 978-0-8248-8662-2
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
The work begins by examining how monks fashioned new genres, created their own books, and fueled a monastic audience for monks' poetry. It traces the evolution of gÄthÄ from hymns found in Buddhist scripture to an independent genre for poems associated with Chan masters as living buddhas. While Song monastic culture produced a prodigious amount of verse, at the same time it promoted prohibitions against monks' participation in poetry as a worldly or Confucian art: This constructive tension was an animating force. The Poetry Demon highlights this and other intersections of Buddhist doctrine with literary sociality and charts productive pathways through numerous materials, including collections of Chan ""recorded sayings,"" monastic rulebooks, ""eminent monk"" and ""flame record"" hagiographies, manuscripts of poetry, Buddhist encyclopedia, primers, and sÅ'tra commentary.
Two chapter-length case studies illustrate how Song monks participated in two of the most prominent and conservative modes of poetry of the time, those of parting and mourning. Protass reveals how monks used Chan humor with reference to emptiness to transform acts of separation into Buddhist teachings. In another chapter, monks in mourning expressed their grief and dharma through poetry. The Poetry Demon impressively uncovers new and creative ways to study Chinese Buddhist monks' poetry while contributing to the broader study of Chinese religion and literature.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte