Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark : : The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul's Excerpts on Zen Practice / / ed. by Robert E. Buswell.
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual-that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 1 color frontis |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- I. Translator's Introduction
- Chinul's Excerpts and the Sudden / Gradual Debate in East Asian Buddhism
- Excerpts as Chinul's Religious Autobiography
- The Title of the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
- Zongmi's and Chinul's Treatments of the Four Chan / Sŏn Schools
- Numinous Awareness and Tracing Back the Radiance
- Excerpts and the Debates Concerning Sudden vs. Gradual Enlightenment
- Sudden Awakening / Gradual Cultivation: Chinul's Preferred Soteriology of Moderate Subitism
- Different Soteriological Schemata
- Problems with Radical Subitism
- Radical Subitism and the Kanhwa Technique
- Contemporary Critiques of Chinul's Moderate Subitism
- Must Kanhwa Sŏn Entail Radical Subitism?
- Excerpts' Legacy in Korean Buddhism
- II. Translation
- Chinul's Excerpts from the "Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record" with Inserted Personal Notes: An Annotated Translation
- I. Chinul's Preface
- II. Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
- III. Chinul's Exposition
- Appendix: Complete Table of Contents of Chinul's Excerpts
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Translator