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The Chan Whip Anthology - A Companion to Zen Practice (Paperback)
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The Chan Whip Anthology - A Companion to Zen Practice (Paperback)
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Jeffrey L. Broughton offers an annotated translation of the Whip
for Spurring Students Onward Through the Chan Barrier Checkpoints
(Changuan cejin), which he abbreviates to Chan Whip. This
anthology, compiled by Yunqi Zhuhong (1535-1615), has served as a
Chan handbook in both China and Japan since its publication in
1600. To characterize the Chan Whip as late Ming Chan is
inaccuratein fact, it is a survey of virtually the entirety of Chan
literature, running from the late 800s (Tang dynasty) to about 1600
(late Ming). The Chan extracts, the bulk of the book, are followed
by a short section of extracts from Buddhist canonical works
(showing Zhuhongs adherence to the convergence of Chan and the
teachings). The Chan extracts deliberately eschew abstract
discussions of theory in favor of autobiographical narratives,
anecdotal sketches, exhortations, sermons, sayings, and letters
that deal very franklysometimes humorouslywith the concrete ups and
downs of lived practice. Recent decades have seen the publication
in English of a number of handbooks on Zen practice by contemporary
East Asian masters. The Chan Whip, though 400 years old, is as
invaluable to todays practitioners as these modern works. The
scholarly literature on Chan until now has focused on the Tang and
Song dynastiesby giving us in addition the sayings of Yuan- and
Ming-dynasty masters this translation fills a gap in that
literature.
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