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Ordinary Mind as the Way - The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism (Hardcover, New)
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Ordinary Mind as the Way - The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism (Hardcover, New)
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Under the leadership of Mazu Daoyi (709-788) and his numerous
disciples, the Hongzhou School emerged as the dominant tradition of
Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China during the middle part of the Tang
dynasty(618-907). Mario Poceski offers a systematic examination of
the Hongzhou School's momentous growth and rise to preeminence as
the bearer of Chan orthodoxy, and analyzes its doctrines against
the backdrop of the intellectual and religious milieus of Tang
China. Poceski demonstrates that the Hongzhou School represented
the first emergence of an empire-wide Chan tradition that had
strongholds throughout China and replaced the various fragmented
Schools of early Chan with an inclusive orthodoxy.
Poceski's study is based on the earliest strata of permanent
sources, rather than on the later apocryphal "encounter dialogue"
stories regularly used to construe widely-accepted but historically
unwarranted interpretations about the nature of Chan in the Tang
dynasty. He challenges the traditional and popularly-accepted view
of the Hongzhou School as a revolutionary movement that rejected
mainstream mores and teachings, charting a new path for Chan's
independent growth as a unique Buddhist tradition. This view, he
argues, rests on a misreading of key elements of the Hongzhou
School's history. Rather than acting as an unorthodox movement, the
Hongzhou School's success was actually based largely on its ability
to mediate tensions between traditionalist and iconoclastic
tendencies. Going beyond conventional romanticized interpretations
that highlight the radical character of the Hongzhou School,
Poceski shows that there was much greater continuity between early
and classical Chan-and between theHongzhou School and the rest of
Tang Buddhism-than previously thought.
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