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How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China / Schluter, Morten
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How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China
Schluter, Morten
 
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  Book ID : 34749
  ISBN-10 : 81-215-1212-3 / 8121512123
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-215-1212-1 / 9788121512121
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2009
  Edition : (First Edition)
  Language : English
  300p., Gloss., Bib., Index, 24 cm.
   
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CONTENTS:-
1. Chan Buddhism in the Song: Some background
2. The Chan School and the Song state
3. Procreation and Patronage in the Song Chan School
4. A new Chan tradition: The reinvention of the Caodong lineage in the Song
5. A dog has no Buddha-Nature: Kanhua Chan and Dahui Zonggao’s attack on silent Illumination
6. The Caodong tradition as the target of attack by the Linji tradition
7. Silent illumination and the Caodong tradition

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How Zen Became Zen takes a novel approach to understanding one of the most crucial developments in Zen Buddhism: the dispute over the nature of enlightenment that erupted within the Chinese Chan (Zen) school in the twelfth century. The famous Linji (Rinzai) Chan master Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163) railed against “heretical silent illumination Chan” and strongly advocated kanhua (kina) meditation as an antidote. In this fascinating study, Morten Schlutter shows that Dahu’s target was the Caodong (Soto) Chan tradition that had been revived and reinvented in the early twelfth century, and that silent meditation was an approach to practice and enlightenment that originated within this “new” Chan tradition. Schlutter has written a refreshingly accessible account of the intricacies of the dispute, which is still reverberating through modern Zen in both Asia and the West. Dahui and his opponents’ arguments for their respective positions come across in this book in as earnest and relevant a manner as they must have seemed almost nine hundred years ago.

Although much of the book is devoted to illuminating the doctrinal and stereological issues behind the enlightenment dispute, Schlutter makes the case that the dispute must be understood in the context of government policies toward Buddhism, economic factors, and social changes. He analyzes the remarkable ascent of Chan during the first centuries of the song dynasty, when it became the dominant form of elite monastic Buddhism; and demonstrates that secular educated elites came to control the critical transmission from master to disciple (“procreation” as Schlutter terms it) in the Chan School.

How Zen Became Zen seeks to understand developments in Chan Buddhism from an angle that is radically different from most studies, which tend to depict this religious tradition as a closed system that is internally motivated. Scholars, Zen practitioners, and others interested in Chan and Zen thought will welcome this groundbreaking study.

Morten Schlutter received an MA in Chinese studies from the University of Copenhagen and a doctorate in religious studies from Yale University. He has published on various aspects of Chinese Buddhism, primarily Chinese Chan (Zen). Among other projects, e is working on a book in which he traces crucial developments in Chan Buddhist ideology through different versions of the famous platform sutra of the sixth patriarch, Schlutter is presently on the faculty of the department of religious studies at the university of lowa.

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