Eminent Nuns : : Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China / / Beata Grant.
The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Scholars have noted the profound effect on, and literary responses to, the fall of the Ming on the male literati elite. Also of great interest...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Brief Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter one. Setting the Stage Seventeenth-Century Texts and Contexts
- Chapter two. Images of Nuns in the Writings of Seventeenth-Century Monks
- Chapter three. The Making of a Woman Chan Master
- Chapter four. Qiyuan Xinggang as Abbess, Dharma Teacher, and Religious Exemplar
- Chapter five. Passing on the Lamp: The Dharma Successors of Qiyuan Xinggang
- Chapter six. From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche
- Chapter seven. From Wise Mother to Chan Master: Baochi Jizong
- Chapter eight. Reviving the Worlds of Literary Chan: Zukui Jifu
- Chapter nine. From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru
- A Brief Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index