Chan Before Chan - Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism

About the author

Eric M. Greene is assistant professor of religious studies at Yale University.

Summary

Offers a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. Eric Greene focuses on how medieval Chinese Buddhists interpreted their own and others' visionary experiences and the nature of the authority they ascribed to them.

Product details

• Authors: Eric M Greene, Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell Jr
• Assisted by: Robert E Buswell (Editor), Robert E. Buswell (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780824884437
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-8443-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 231 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian B; Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous