The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation : : Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China /

The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation : : Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China / / Eric M. Greene; ed. by Robert E. Buswell.

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Greene, Eric M.,
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Buswell, Robert E.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.) :; 4 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions and Abbreviations
  • Part I Introduction to the Chan Essentials and Methods for Curing
  • Chapter 1. Meditation and Meditation Literature in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism
  • Chapter 2. Buddhist Meditation according to the Chan Essentials and Methods for Curing
  • Chapter 3. Ritual Repentance, Buddha Bodies, and Somatic Soteriology
  • Chapter 4. Textual Histories and the Making of Chinese Meditation Scriptures
  • Part II. Translations of the Chan Essentials and Methods for Curing
  • Introduction to the Translations
  • Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan: Chan Essentials (Chan mi yao fa jing 禪祕要法經)
  • Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness: Methods for Curing (Zhi chan bing mi yao fa 治禪病祕要法)
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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