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Illusory Abiding - The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben (Hardcover)
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Illusory Abiding - The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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A groundbreaking monograph on Yuan dynasty Buddhism, Illusory
Abiding" offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study
of the eminent Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Natasha Heller
demonstrates that Mingben, and other monks of his stature,
developed a range of cultural competencies through which they
navigated social and intellectual relationships. They mastered
repertoires internal to their tradition for example, guidelines for
monastic life as well as those that allowed them to interact with
broader elite audiences, such as the ability to compose verses on
plum blossoms. These cultural exchanges took place within local,
religious, and social networks and at the same time, they comprised
some of the very forces that formed these networks in the first
place. This monograph contributes to a more robust account of
Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China, and demonstrates the
importance of situating monks as actors within broader
sociocultural fields of practice and exchange."
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