Leaving for the Rising Sun - Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East

Zusatztext In this wonderfully informative study, Jiang Wu extends the significance of his previous, groundbreaking book, Enlightenment in Dispute, from China into the greater East Asian sphere of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through the career and legacy of the eminent monk Yinyuan Longqi (1592-1673) in China and Japan, Wu penetrates the crisis of cultural legitimacy that beset East Asia, particularly Tokugawa Japan, after the demise of the Ming dynasty. Informationen zum Autor Jiang Wu is an associate professor in Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. His research interests include Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen Buddhism and the Chinese Buddhist canon, Sino-Japanese Buddhist exchanges, and the application of spatial analysis tools in the study of religion and culture. His first book Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Klappentext In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded his own tradition called Obaku. Leaving for the Rising Sun tells the story of the tremendous obstacles he faced, drawing parallels between his experiences and the broader political and cultural context in which he lived. Zusammenfassung In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded his own tradition called Obaku. Leaving for the Rising Sun tells the story of the tremendous obstacles he faced, drawing parallels between his experiences and the broader political and cultural context in which he lived.

Product details

• Authors: Jiang Wu, Jiang (Associate Professor of East Asian Studi Wu, Wu Jiang
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780199393121
• ISBN: 978-0-19-939312-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Ostasiatische und indische Philosophie, Asiatische Geschichte, RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen, Religion - World Religions, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / China, PHILOSOPHY / Zen, RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY / Zen), History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Zen Buddhism, East Asia, Far East, C 1600 To C 1700