Shifting Shape, Shaping Text : : Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan / / Steven Heine.

According to the fox koan, the second case in the Wu-men kuan koan collection, Zen master Pai-chang encounters a fox who claims to be a former abbot punished through endless reincarnations for denying the efficacy of karmic causality. In the end he is liberated by Pai-chang's turning word, whic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999]
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Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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