Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
Meditation, Repentance, And Visionary Experience In Chinese Buddhism
- Editore:
UNIV OF HAWAII PR
- Collana:
- Kuroda Studies in East Asian B
- EAN:
9780824884437
- ISBN:
0824884434
- Pagine:
- 464
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Libro Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism di Eric M. Greene
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Offers a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. Eric Greene focuses on how medieval Chinese Buddhists interpreted their own and others' visionary experiences and the nature of the authority they ascribed to them.
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