The Record of Tung-shan / / Tung-shan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tung-shan,
• MitwirkendeR: Aitken, Robert,; An Zendō, Koko,; Sakurai, Shuyu,
• TeilnehmendeR: Powell, William F.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (112 p.)

Tung-shan Lian-chien (807-869) was an active participant in what was perhaps the most creative and influential phase in the development of Ch’an Buddhism in China. He is regarded as the founder of the Ts'ao Tung lineage, one of the so-called Five Houses of Ch’an, and it was his approach to Buddhism and the house it gave rise to that attracted the interest of the great thirteenth-century Japanese monk Dogen during his stay in China. Dogen subsequently carried Tung-shan’s lineage back to Japan where it became known as Soto Zen, which remains one of the major Zen sects today.The discourse record translated in this volume represents a unique form of religious literature. Drawn from the dialogues of ninth-century and tenth-century Ch’an masters who lived mostly in the mountains and rural areas in and around modern Kiangsu Province, the discourse records present the reader not with philosophy or doctrine but rather with word portraits of some of China's more influential Ch’an masters. They allow us to glimpse the personalities and teaching styles of figures believed to be capable of manifesting the “pure mind” in their simplest words and actions. Few early Ch’an masters appear to have committed their teachings to writing, so that the discourse records are virtually the only tangible traces that remain of these seminal figures of Ch’an history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Record of Liang-chieh of Tung-shan in Jui-chou -- Ch'an Sites in Ninth Century Southeast China -- Notes -- Index of Figures Mentioned in The Record of Tung-shan -- Bibliography -- Production Notes