How Zen Became a Social Construct
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 […]
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Early Chinese Zen and Sinified Buddhism
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 […]
Five Translations of a Single Poem by Guànxiū
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 […]