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The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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This book provides a wide-ranging examination of the Hongzhou
school of Chan Buddhism--"the precursor to Zen Buddhism--"under
Mazu Daoyi (709-788) and his successors in eighth- through
tenth-century China, which was credited with creating a Golden Age
or classical tradition. Jinhua Jia uses stele inscriptions and
other previously ignored texts to explore the school's teachings
and history. Defending the school as a full-fledged, significant
lineage, Jia reconstructs Mazu's biography and resolves
controversies about his disciples. In contrast to the many scholars
who either accept or reject the traditional Chan histories and
discourse records, she thoroughly examines the Hongzhou literature
to differentiate the original, authentic portions from later layers
of modification and recreation. The book describes the emergence
and maturity of encounter dialogue and analyzes the new doctrines
and practices of the school to revise the traditional notion of
Mazu and his followers as iconoclasts. It also depicts the
strivings of Mazu's disciples for orthodoxy and how the criticisms
of and reflections on Hongzhou doctrine led to the schism of this
line and the rise of the Shitou line and various houses during the
late Tang and Five Dynasties periods. Jia refutes the traditional
Chan genealogy of two lines and five houses and calls for new
frameworks in the study of Chan history. An annotated translation
of datable discourses of Mazu is also included.
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