Immanence and Transcendence in Chinese Chan Buddhism

2014 ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Yijie Tang
Keyword(s):  
Chan Buddhism

Some References to Visualization Practices in Early Chán Buddhism with an Emphasis on guān 觀 and kàn 看

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Anderl
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Chan Buddhism ◽  
Visual Processes ◽  
The Mind

Abstract In the analysis of processes of sensory perception in the framework of Buddhist contemplation practices, the visual sense faculty has played a crucial role. In this paper, references to Chinese Buddhist terminology referring to visual processes will be analyzed in their historical context, with a focus on the interpretations of guān 觀 and kàn 看 by proponents of the early Chán School. Crucial questions include the notions of the “agent” (i.e., the entity engaging in the process of visualization or viewing), as well as the ontological status of the “object” to be viewed, in addition to the nature of the process of viewing and the bodily preconditions for engaging in visualization practices. The creative reinterpretations of terms such as guānxīn 觀心 “contemplate the mind” and kànxīn 看心 “view the mind” were also important devices to create a distinctive identity for this newly emerging Chinese Buddhist school. As will be shown, despite the fierce attacks on “gradualist” meditation practices by proponents of the “Southern School” of Chán during the 8th century, the concepts of guānxīn and kànxīn by no means disappeared from the discourse on meditation but continued to play an important role at least until the 10th century and beyond.

Chan Buddhism

2020 ◽  
pp. 381-383
Author(s):  
Wing-shing Chan
Keyword(s):  
Chan Buddhism

scholarly journals The quasi-genderless heresy: The Dhūtaists and Master Jizhao

2004 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALENTINA BORETTI
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Yuan Dynasty ◽  
Chan Buddhism ◽  
Jin Dynasty ◽  
The Yuan Dynasty

This paper looks at the professional alternatives that Buddhism offered to women by analysing the important role played by a female master in the as yet little studied Dhūta movement, a form of ‘heretical’ Chan Buddhism that flourished during the final years of the Jin dynasty and afterwards in the Yuan dynasty. By examining the descriptions of female master Jizhao and male master Puguang, as seen in epitaphs composed by officers-literati and preserved in a Bejing gazetteer dating back to the mid-fourteenth century, this paper aims to highlight some features of the Dhūtaists' discourse of femininity and also to point out the differences vis-à-vis orthodox Chan constructs, in order finally to evaluate whether such a discourse could have an influence on the general definitions and content of gender roles.

Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-227
Author(s):  
Li Zehou
Keyword(s):  
Chan Buddhism

Wang Yangming (1472–1529)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shun Kwong-Loi
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chan Buddhism ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Wang Yangming ◽  
The Mind

Wang Yangming was an influential Confucian thinker in sixteenth-century China who, like other Confucian thinkers, emphasized social and political responsibilities and regarded cultivation of the self as the basis for fulfilling such responsibilities. While sometimes drawing on ideas and metaphors from Daoism and Chan Buddhism, he criticized these schools for their neglect of family ties and social relations. And, in opposition to a version of Confucianism which emphasized learning, he advocated directly attending to the mind in the process of self-cultivation.

Laughing for Nothing in Chan Buddhism

2017 ◽  
pp. 173-213
Author(s):  
Katrin Froese
Keyword(s):  
Chan Buddhism

The problem with orthodoxy in Zen Buddhism: Yongming Yanshou's notion of zong in the Zongjin lu (Records of the Source Mirror)

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Welter
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
Chan Buddhism ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

The practice of Zen Buddhism in Japan, Chan Buddhism in China, and its counterparts in Korea and Vietnam bear little resemblance to the way this form of Buddhism is often characterized ideologically. The present study explores some of the premises of "moderate" Chan, which forms the basis for Chan/Zen as an institutional religion operating within the larger Buddhist world of East Asian societies. In particular, the study addresses the notion of zong in the Zongjing lu (Record of the Source Mirror), compiled by Yongming Yanshou (904-975), one of the leading representatives of "scholastic" (wenzi) Chan and a key figure in articulating the "moderate" Chan position. The study suggests how the definition of contemporary Zen orthodoxy has been dominated by representatives from the "rhetorical" Zen tradition, creating a disjuncture between our intellectual understanding of Zen and the principles guiding its actual practice.

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