Tracking Bodhidharma A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture

by Ferguson, Andy

• ISBN13: 9781582438252
• ISBN10: 1582438250
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-08
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

The local Difang Zhi (historical records) state that Bodhidharma established. True Victory Temple here in Tianchang. Difang Zhi are considered reliable because they are simply local records, not "histories" that might be written to promote a special version of events. So this place, almost unknown in both China and the West, may truly be where Bodhidharma set up a Dharma seat and expounded his Zen in China. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Andy Ferguson is a graduate of the Chinese Language and Literature program at the University of Oregon. He has lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan, and has traveled extensively in East and Southeast Asia since 1978. He has organized and led numerous tours to visit Chinese Zen history sites. He lives in Petaluma, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
An Auspicious Date	p. 3
Guangzhou	p. 10
Hualin Temple	p. 18
The Layout of a Traditional Chinese Temple	p. 31
Grand Buddha Temple	p. 38
Guangxiao Temple	p. 43
Another Visit to Hualin Temple	p. 50
Traveling North	p. 55
Zen at War	p. 60
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Ancestor	p. 66
Nanhua Temple: The Sixth Ancestor Huineng's Dharma Seat	p. 68
Yunmen Temple	p. 78
Danxia Mountain	p. 86
Separate Transmission Temple	p. 89
Nanchang City	p. 93
Youmin Temple	p. 98
The Trip to Baizhang Temple	p. 99
Baizhang Temple	p. 105
Jiujiang City	p. 131
Up or Down the Yang-tse River?	p. 135
Meeting Gunabhadra?	p. 137
Laozu Si, the Old Ancestor's Temple	p. 148
Nanjing City	p. 163
Emperor Wu and Imperial-Way Buddhism	p. 166
Tianchang City and Bodhidharma's True Victory Temple	p. 172
Linggu Temple on Bell Mountain	p. 180
Emperor Wu, the Chakravartin King and Bodhisattva Emperor	p. 182
Emperor Wu and His Family	p. 189
Emperor Wu and the Temples of Bell Mountain	p. 192
Mufu Mountains and Bodhidharma's Nanjing Cave	p. 201
The Fusing of Confucianism and Buddhism under Emperor Wu	p. 208
The Tai Cheng Palace and Hualin Garden	p. 211
The Poem by Crown Prince Zhao Ming (Xiao Tong)	p. 216
Stone Fortress and Refreshing Mountain	p. 220
Dingshan Temple	p. 227
Changlu Temple	p. 239
Train to Wuhan	p. 247
Xiangfan City	p. 258
Mount Song and Shaolin Temple	p. 262
Shaolin Temple	p. 265
Bodhidharma's Cave	p. 279
Huishan Temple	p. 283
Ordination Platforms: The Battle Ground between Imperial and Bodhidharma Zen?	p. 293
The Temples of Luoyang	p. 299
Empty Appearance Temple	p. 309
Bodhidharma's Memorial Stele: Written by Emperor Wu?	p. 312
Bodhidharma Memorial Ceremony	p. 328
Train to Shanghai	p. 330
Bodhidharma's Fate	p. 340
Epilogue	p. 346
Was Japan to Blame?	p. 353
Appendix: Traditional Account of Bodhidharma's Death in the Compendium of Five Lamps (thirteenth century)	p. 357
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