(Free read ebook) The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism
✿ Bernard Faure ✿
| #2830980 in Books | Stanford University Press | 1997-12-01 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | .72 x6.03 x9.03l, | File Name: 0804728666 | 304 pages |
||5 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| surpassed long ago|By A Customer|I think that someone must have thought "Lets take this old thesis, dress it up, and maybe we can make some money". There is really no reason for this book to exist. Almost all of the ideas and topics in this book (and more) are presented in much more depth in John R. McRae's "The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism". In t|From the Inside Flap|
Marking a complete break with previous scholarship in the field, this book rewrites the history of early Chan (Zen) Buddhism, focusing on the genealogy and doctrine of one of its dominant strains, the so-called Northern school that flo
Marking a complete break with previous scholarship in the field, this book rewrites the history of early Chan (Zen) Buddhism, focusing on the genealogy and doctrine of one of its dominant strains, the so-called Northern school that flourished at the turn of the eighth century.
The traditional interpretation of the Northern school was heavily influenced by the polemics of one of its opponents, the monk Shenhiu, who characterized the Northern school's teaching... [PDF.cb96] The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism Rating: 3.81 (628 Votes)
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