Sudden and Gradual : : Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought / / ed. by Peter N. Gregory.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Buswell, Robert E.,; Cahill, James,; Demiéville, Paul,; Donner, Neal,; Gregory, Peter N.,; Gómez, Luis O.,; Lai, Whalen,; Lynn, Richard John,; McRae, John R.,; Stein, R. A.,; Wei-ming, Tu,
• HerausgeberIn: Gregory, Peter N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I. The Sudden and Gradual Debates
• The Mirror of the Mind
• Sudden Illumination or Simultaneous Comprehension: Remarks on Chinese and Tibetan Terminology
• Purifying Gold: The Metaphor of Effort and Intuition in Buddhist Thought and Practice
• II. Sudden and Gradual Enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism
• Tao-sheng's Theory of Sudden Enlightenment Re-examined
• Sudden and Gradual Intimately Conjoined: Chih-i's T'ien-t'ai View
• Shen-hui and the Teaching of Sudden Enlightenment in Early Ch'an Buddhism
• Sudden Enlightenment Followed by Gradual Cultivation: Tsung-mi's Analysis of Mind
• The "Short-cut" Approach of K'an-hua Meditation: The Evolution of a Practical Subitism in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism
• III. Analogies in the Cultural Sphere
• The Sudden and the Gradual in Chinese Poetry Criticism: An Examination of the Ch'an-Poetry Analogy
• Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's "Southern and Northern Schools" in the History and Theory of Painting: A Reconsideration
• Afterword
• Contributors
• Index