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How Zen Became a Social Construct

March 27, 2013 tommazanec

Book Review: How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China By Morten Schlutter In the last thirty or so years, scholars […]

 Buddhism, China  caodong, Chan, linji, morten schlütter, rinzai, song dynasty, sōtō, zen  Leave a comment

Early Chinese Zen and Sinified Buddhism

February 28, 2013April 15, 2015 tommazanec

Book Review Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism By Peter Gregory In this book, Peter Gregory outlines the intellectual life of the mid-Táng monk Zōngmì 宗密 (780-841), claimed as a […]

 Book Reviews, Buddhism, China  Chan, Hua-yen, Huayan, Tsung-mi, zen, Zongmi  Leave a comment

Five Translations of a Single Poem by Guànxiū

October 20, 2012October 20, 2012 tommazanec

Edward Schafer (1913-1991) was one of the major figures of American Sinology in the second half of the 20th century. His researched focused primarily on microscopic issues (what certain Chinese […]

 China, Poetry, Translation  beatnik, edward schafer, guanxiu, zen, 貫休  1 Comment

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