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Zusatztext The Letters of Dahui -- essential Chan/Zen reading for centuries now available to us! Written by the greatest Chan master of the Song to prominent lay people rather than to monks, these letters highlight the question of how to live a life of Zen in the midst of a noisy and contentious world -- perfect for our time! An essential text by the master translator of our time for Chan literature. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey L. Broughton is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the author of The Chan Whip Anthology and The Record of Linji Klappentext The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of the elite class in Chinese society, and to two Chan masters, these letters are dharma talks on how to engage in Buddhist cultivation. Each of the letters to laymen is fascinating as a document directed to a specific scholar-official with his distinctive niche, high or low, in the Song-dynasty social-political landscape, and his idiosyncratic stage of development on the Buddhist path. Dahui is engaging, incisive, and often quite humorous in presenting his teaching of "constantly lifting to awareness the phrase (huatou)," his favored phrases being No (wu) and dried turd. Throughout one's busy twenty-four hours, the practitioner is not to perform any mental operation whatsoever on this phrase, and to "take awakening as the standard." This epistolary compilation has long constituted a self-contained course of study for Chan practitioners. For centuries, Letters of Dahui has been revered throughout East Asia. It has exerted a formative influence on Linji Chan practice in China, molded S¿n practice in Korea, and played a key role in Hakuin (Rinzai) Zen in Japan. Jeffrey Broughton's translation, has made extensive use of Mujaku D¿ch¿'s (1653-1744) insightful commentary on Letters of Dahui, Pearl in the Wicker-Basket. Zusammenfassung Dahui's Letters is a compilation of letters of the Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163) to forty scholar-officials and two Chan masters. Each of the letters to laymen is fascinating as a document directed at a specific scholar-official with his distinctive social niche and relative level of spiritual development. Dahui's style of practice became dominant throughout East Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Introduction Epistolary Chan A Brief Biography of Dahui The Editor-in-Chief of Letters of Dahui: Huang Wenchang Dating of the Letters Confucianism and the Chan Gongfu of Dahui Dahui's Diagnosis of Scholar-Officials' Stumbling Block in the Study of Chan Two Perverse Chan Teachings According to Dahui Dahui's Huatou Practice: An Inheritance from His Teacher(s)? Dahui's Huatou-Practice Vocabulary Dahui on Sitting Practice in the Context of Huatou Practice What Not to Do in Huatou Practice Recurring Motifs in Huatou Practice Dahui's Collection Correct Dharma-Eye Depository and Letters of Dahui Mujaku D¿ch¿'s Commentary Pearl in the Wicker-Basket Two Korean Commentaries: Hyesim and "Korean Anonymous" Influence of Letters of Dahui in China Influence of Letters of Dahui in Korea Influence of Letters of Dahui in Japan Three Hanging Scrolls Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue Volume One 1: In Reply to Vice Minister Ceng (Tianyou) (Question Letter Attached) 2: Continued [Second Letter in Reply to Vice Minister Ceng] n 3 4: Continued [Fourth Letter in Reply to Vice Minister Ceng] 5: Continued [Fifth Letter in Reply to Vice Minister Ceng] 6: Continued [Sixth Letter in Reply to Vice Minister Ceng] 7: In Reply to Participant in Determining Gover...
