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Ordinary Mind as the Way
The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism
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| Author(s) : Poceski, Mario |
| Publishers Price : £38.99 |
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| ISBN : 0195319966 | | EAN : 9780195319965 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 290 | | Size : 242 x 162mm | | Publisher : Oxford Univ Press, New York | | Published : 2007 |
Category : Chinese Buddhism
Category 2 : Zen: General
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Synopsis:
Under the leadership of Mazu Daoyi and his numerous disciples, the Hongzhou School emerged as the dominant tradition of Chan Buddhism in China during the middle part of the Tang dynasty (618-907). Poceski offers a systematic examination of the Hongzhou's momentous growth and rise to preeminence as the bearer of Chan orthodoxy, and analyzes its doctrines. He demonstrates that the Hongzhou school represented the first emergence of an empire-wide Chan tradition that had strongholds throughout China and replaced the various fragmented schools of early Chan with an inclusive orthodoxy.
"A much needed corrective to prevailing assumptions regarding the nature of the Hongzhou school and Tang dynasty Chan. It raises serious questions and will open an important debate on the nature of Chan, particularly as practiced in its allegedly most anticonventional, iconoclastic branch. Virtually everyone who studies (or practices) Chan or Zen today does so under the assumption that the Hongzhou school inaugarated a "pure" Zen style that eventually became the hallmark of Zen orthodoxy. No one who reads this book will be able to rest in the certitude that Mazu and his students inaugarated this radical interpretation of Chan teaching that served as the basis for Chan and Zen orthodoxies to the present day." Albert Welter.
"Poceski's analysis is exhaustive and exciting, reliable and readable. He demystifies the Hongzhou school of Mazu Daoyi in ways that will frustrate romantics." John McRae. |
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