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Zen Evangelist - Shenhui, Sudden Enlightenment, and the Southern School of Chan Buddhism (Hardcover)
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Zen Evangelist - Shenhui, Sudden Enlightenment, and the Southern School of Chan Buddhism (Hardcover)
Series: Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism
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Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is
often credited with founding the Southern school of Chan Buddhism
and its radical doctrine of "sudden enlightenment." However,
manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang at the beginning of the
twentieth century reveal that the real architect of the Southern
school was Huineng’s student Shenhui (684–758). An ardent
evangelist for his master’s teaching and a sharp critic of rival
meditation teachers of his day, Shenhui was responsible for
Huineng’s recognition as the "sixth patriarch," for the promotion
and eventual triumph of the sudden teaching, and for a somewhat
combative style of Chan discourse that came to be known as
"encounter dialogue." Shenhui’s historical importance in the rise
and success of Chan is beyond dispute, yet until now there has been
no complete translation of his corpus into English. This volume
brings together John McRae’s lifetime of work on the Shenhui
corpus, including extensively annotated translations of all five of
Shenhui’s texts discovered at Dunhuang as well as McRae’s
seminal studies of Shenhui’s life, teachings, and legacy.
McRae’s research explores the degree to which the received view
of the Northern school teachings is a fiction created by Shenhui to
score rhetorical points and that Northern and Southern teachings
may have been closer to one another than the canonical narrative
depicts. McRae explains Shenhui’s critical role in shaping what
would later emerge as "classical Chan," while remaining skeptical
about the glowing image of Shenhui as an effective mentor and
inspired revolutionary. This posthumously published book is the
fulfillment of McRae’s wish to make Shenhui’s surviving
writings accessible through carefully annotated English
translations, allowing readers to form their own opinions.
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