Zen Classics Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism

by Heine, Steven; Wright, Dale S.

• ISBN13: 9780195175264
• ISBN10: 0195175263
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume collected original essays on koan collections, recorded sayings of individual masters, histories of major schools, and compilations of monastic regulations. The second focuses on the early historyof Zen in China, providing overview assessments of many of the most important canonical texts that set the Zen tradition in motion throughout East Asia. Zen Classics will follow that historical movement, focusing primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought this Buddhist movement tofruition. Although enormously diverse in style and structure all of the texts and genres of texts considered here were fundamental to the unfolding of Zen in East Asia. The range of genres reveals the varieties of Zen practice, from rules of daily practice to sermons and meditation manuals. The allnew essays in this volume will be contributed by an international team of distinguished scholars of Buddhism. It is aimed at broad audience including college students, Zen practitioners, and scholars of East Asian history, religion, and culture, as well as specialists in Buddhist history.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations,	ix
Contributors,	xi
Introduction: The Concept of Classic Literature in Zen Buddhism,	3	(12)
Dale S. Wright
1. Guishan jingce (Guishan's Admonitions) and the Ethical Foundations of Chan Practice,	15	(28)
Mario Poceski
2. A Korean Contribution to the Zen Canon: The Oga Hae Seorui (Commentaries on Five Masters on the Diamond Sutra),	43	(22)
Charles Muller
3. Zen Buddhism as the Ideology of the Japanese State: Eisai and the Kozen gokokuron,	65	(48)
Albert Welter
4. An Analysis of Dogen's Eihei Goroku: Distillation or Distortion?	113	(24)
Steven Heine
5. "Rules of Purity" in Japanese Zen,	137	(34)
T Griffith Foulk
6. Zen Koan Capping Phrase Books: Literary Study and the Insight "Not Founded on Words or Letters,"	171	(44)
G. Victor Sogen Hori
7. Imagining Indian Zen: TOrei's Commentary on the Ta-mo-to-lo ch'an ching and the Rediscovery of Early Meditation Techniques during the Tokugawa Era,	215	(32)
Michel Mohr
8. Meditation for Laymen and Laywomen: The Buddha Samadhi (Jijuyu Zanmai) of Menzan Zuiho,	247	(28)
David E. Riggs
Appendix: Pinyin–Wade-Giles Conversion Table,	275	(6)
Index,	281