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Mystique of Transmission On an Early Chan History and Its Context

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ISBN-10: 0231136641

ISBN-13: 9780231136648

Edition: 2006

Authors: Wendi Adamek

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The Mystique of Transmissionis a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji( Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the eighth-century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan. Chinese religions scholar Wendi Adamek compares the Lidai fabao jiwith other sources from the fourth through eighth centuries, chronicling changes in the doctrines and practices involved in transmitting medieval Chinese Buddhist teachings. While Adamek is…    
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Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.94" long x 0.16" tall
Weight: 2.178
Language: English

The mystique of transmission
Authority and authenticity
Transmission and translation
Transmission and lay practice
Material Buddhism and the Dharma Kings
Robes and patriarchs
Wuzhu and his others
The legacy of the Lidai fabao ji
Annotated translation of the Lidai fabao ji
Sources and the legend of Emperor Ming of the Han
Buddhism in China
Transmission from India to China (the Fu fazang zhuan)
The first patriarch, Bodhidharmatrata
The second patriarch, Huike
The third patriarch, Sengcan
The fourth patriarch, Daoxin
The fifth patriarch, Hongren
The sixth patriarch, Huineng, part 1
Dharma Master Daoan and scripture quotations
Huineng, part 2
Zhishen and Empress Wu
Chan Master Zhishen
Chan Master Chuji
Chan Master Wuxiang
The venerable Shenhui
Discourses of the venerable Wuzhu
Wuzhu and Wuxiang
Du Hongjian's arrival in Shu
Du Hongjian and Wuzhu meet
Cui Gan visits Wuzhu
Dialogue with Chan Master Tiwu
Dialogue with Chan Master Huiyi
Dialogue with Masters Yijing, Zhumo, and Tangwen
Dialogue with Master Jingzang
Dialogue with Master Zhiyi
Dialogue with Master Zhongxin
Dialogue with Dharma Master Falun
Dialogue with the brothers Yixing and Huiming
Dialogue with Changjingjin and Liaojianxing (female disciples)
Excerpts and quotations, part 1
Excerpts and quotations, part 2
Tea Gatha
Dialogue with Daoists
Dialogue with dharma masters
Dialogue with Vinaya masters
Dialogue with treatise masters
Trading quotations with masters Daoyou, Mingfa, and Guanlu
Taking on Chan disciplines while drinking tea
Dialogue with Master Xiongjun
Dialogue with Master Fayuan, accompanied by his mother
Discourse to lay donors
Portrait-eulogy and final scene