History of the development of Chinese Chan Thought / Tianxiang Ma.
Ma, Tianxiang, 1948-; Jorgensen, John Alexander.
2023
BQ9262.9.C5
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Title History of the development of Chinese Chan Thought / Tianxiang Ma.
Author Ma, Tianxiang, 1948-
ISBN 9789819956869 (electronic bk.)
9819956862 (electronic bk.)
9819956854
9789819956852
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5686-9
Publication Details Singapore : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (692 p.)
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-99-5686-9 doi
Call Number BQ9262.9.C5
Dewey Decimal Classification 294.3/9270951
Summary The book aims to describe the history of Chan (Japanese Zen) School thought from the standpoint of social history. Chan, a school of East Asian Buddhism, was influential on all levels of societies in the region because of its intellectual and aesthetic appeal. In China, Chan infiltrated all levels of society, mainly because it engaged with society and formed the mainstream of Buddhism from the tenth or eleventh centuries through to the twentieth century. This book, taking a critical stance, examines the entire history of Chan thought and practice from the viewpoint of a modern Chinese scholar, not a practitioner, but an intellectual historian who places ideological developments in social contexts. The author suggests that core elements of Chan have their origins in Daoist philosophers, especially Zhuangzi, and not in Indian Buddhist concepts. Covering the period from the sixth century into the twentieth century, it deals with Chan interactions with neo-Confucianism, Quanzhen Daoism, and Gongyang new text philology, as well as with literature and scholarship, its fusion with Pure Land Buddhism, and its syncretic tendencies. Chans exchanges with emperors from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasty, as well as the motives of some loyalists of the Ming Dynasty for joining Chan after the fall of the Ming, are described. The book concludes with an examination of the views of Chan of Hu Shi, D.T. Suzuki, and the scholar-monk Yinshun.
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Part 1: The Chan Learning of the Early-Ming Grand Confucians and the Vanguard of Yangming-Chan
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Intro
Foreword I
Foreword II
Contents
Part I The Formation and Branching of Chan Thought
1 An Investigation of Chan
2 The Foundations and Formation of Chan Thought
3 The Branching of Chan Thought
Part II The Synthesis and Infiltration of Song-period Chan Thought
4 An Outline of the Song-Dynasty Chan School
5 The Tolerant Cooperation and Interpenetration of Chan Thought
Part 1: Yanshou's Convergence of Chan, Pure Land, and Doctrine
Part 2: Qisong's Chan Thought that Unified Confucianism and Buddhism

6 From Shanzhao to Chongxian's Songgu Baize (Hundred Old Cases with Hymns)
Part 1: Shanzhao and the Beginnings of Hymns on Old Cases (songgu)
Part 2: Chongxian's Hymns on Old Cases and Their Successes and Failures
Part 3: Keqin's Biyan lu (Blue Cliff Record) and the Deluge of Lettered Chan
Part 4: Huihong and Lettered Chan
7 The Branch Roads in the Development of Chan Thought: Kanhua Chan and Silent Illumination Chan
Part 1: Zonggao and Kanhua Chan
Part 2: Zhengjue and Silent Illumination Chan
Part 3: Criticisms of Kanhua Chan and Silent Illumination Chan

8 Researches on Chan History and Chan Learning
Part 1: Zanning's Chan History and Chan Learning
Part 2: Puji and the Wudeng Huiyuan
Appendix: The Disputes over the Change of Affiliation to the Legitimate Lineage of Yunmen
9 The Attractive Force of Chan Learning and Its Outwards Diffusion
Part 1: The Chan Learning of the Gentry
Part 2: The Chan Learning of the Lixue Neo-Confucians A
Part 3: The Chan Learning of the Lixue Scholars B
Part 4: Poetry, Poetics, and Chan Learning
Part III The Changes in Yuan and Ming Chan Thought

10 The Vicissitudes of Chan Learning in the Early Yuan
Part 1: Wansong Xingxiu and the Evaluations (Pingchang) of the Yuan Period
Part 2: The Chan of the Early Yuan Gentry and the Sanjiao pingxin lun
Part 3: The Dispute Between the Chan-Influenced Quanzhen and the Chan Way A
Part 4: The Dispute Between the Chan-Influenced Quanzhen and the Chan Way
11 The Origins and Spread of Nianfo Chan
Part 1: Mingben's This Mind is Buddha Nianfo Chan
Part 2: Weize's Outward Chan and Inward Pure Land of the Imperishable Soul
Part 3: Fanqi and His Pure Land Faith

Part 4: Zhuhong and His Theory of Rebirth in the Pure Land by the Joint Practice of Chan and Pure Land
12 The Lettered Chan that Blends the Three Religions
Part 1: Zhenke's Lettered Prajñā that Blends the Various Schools
Part 2: Deqing and His Mengyu Quanji (Complete Works of Dream Travels) that Survey the Three Essentials
Part 3: Yuanlai's Canchan Jingyu (Warning Words on Investigating Chan) and Yuanxian's Yiyan (Dream Words) that is the Chan that Saves Confucianism
13 Wang Yangming Chan and the Escapist Chan of the Gentry

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