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The Kōan : texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism / edited by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright.

Contributor(s): Heine, Steven, 1950- | Wright, Dale S
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195117492 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0195117484 (cloth)Subject(s): Koan | Zen BuddhismDDC classification: 294.3/927 LOC classification: BQ9289.5 | .K625 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The form and function of Koan literature: a historical overview / T. Griffith Foulk -- The antecedents of encounter dialogue in Chinese Chʻan Buddhism / John R. McRae -- Mahākāsyapa's smile: silent transmission and the Kung-an (Kōan) tradition / Albert Welter -- Kung-an Chʻan and the Tsung-men tʻung-yao chi / Ishii Shūdō -- Visions, divisions, revisions: the encounter between iconoclasm and supernaturalism in Kōan cases about Mount Wu-tʻai / Steven Heine -- "Before the empty eon" versus "A dog has no Buddha-nature": Kung-an use in the Tsʻao-tung tradition and Ta-hui's Kung-an introspection Chʻan / Morten Schlütter -- Kōan history: transformative language in Chinese Buddhist thought / Dale S. Wright -- Ikkyū and Kōans / Alexander Kabanoff -- Transmission of Kirigami (secret initiation documents): a Sōtō practice in medieval Japan / Ishikawa Rikizan -- Emerging from nonduality: Kōan practice in the Rinzai tradition since Hakuin / Michel Mohr -- Kōan and Kenshō in the Rinzai Zen curriculum / G. Victor Sōgen Hori.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BQ9289.5 .K625 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902367479

The form and function of Koan literature: a historical overview / T. Griffith Foulk -- The antecedents of encounter dialogue in Chinese Chʻan Buddhism / John R. McRae -- Mahākāsyapa's smile: silent transmission and the Kung-an (Kōan) tradition / Albert Welter -- Kung-an Chʻan and the Tsung-men tʻung-yao chi / Ishii Shūdō -- Visions, divisions, revisions: the encounter between iconoclasm and supernaturalism in Kōan cases about Mount Wu-tʻai / Steven Heine -- "Before the empty eon" versus "A dog has no Buddha-nature": Kung-an use in the Tsʻao-tung tradition and Ta-hui's Kung-an introspection Chʻan / Morten Schlütter -- Kōan history: transformative language in Chinese Buddhist thought / Dale S. Wright -- Ikkyū and Kōans / Alexander Kabanoff -- Transmission of Kirigami (secret initiation documents): a Sōtō practice in medieval Japan / Ishikawa Rikizan -- Emerging from nonduality: Kōan practice in the Rinzai tradition since Hakuin / Michel Mohr -- Kōan and Kenshō in the Rinzai Zen curriculum / G. Victor Sōgen Hori.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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