Record of the Transmission of Illumination - Two-Volume Set

"Volume I of this two-volume set contains a thoroughly annotated translation of the Record of the Transmission of Illumination (Denkåoroku) by Zen Master Keizan Jåokin (1264-1325), juxtaposed with the original Japanese text on which the English translation is based: Shåuten Hensan Iinkai, ed., Taiso Keizan Zenji senjutsu Denkåoroku (Tokyo: Såotåoshåu Shåumuchåo, 2005). The prefaces to the Japanese edition are also presented herein, together with English translations. The Introduction to this volume addresses such matters as the life of Keizan, the contents of the Denkåoroku, the provenance of the work, and the textual history of its various recensions. The bibliography lists published and unpublished manuscript editions of the Denkåoroku, modern Japanese and English translations of the Denkåoroku, and many works of modern Japanese and English language scholarship that are relevant to the study of the text"--

About the author

T. Griffith Foulk (Editor)
T. Griffith Foulk, Professor, Sarah Lawrence College: editor, author of the Glossary, and translator

William M. Bodiford (Translator)
William M. Bodiford, Professor, Emeritus, UCLA: author of the Introduction and translator

Sarah J. Horton (Translator)
Sarah J. Horton, independent scholar

Carl Bielefeldt (Translator)
Carl Bielefeldt, Professor, Emeritus, Stanford University

John R. McRae (Translator)
John R. McRae (1947-2011) was a preeminent scholar of Chinese Buddhism who specialized in the rise of Chan (Zen) during the Tang Dynasty. He held positions at Cornell University, Indiana University, and Komazawa University and served for many years as Chair of the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai Publication Committee.

Summary

The first book of this two-volume set consists largely of an annotated translation of the Record of the Transmission of Illumination (Denkroku) by Zen Master Keizan Jkin (1264-1325), presented together with the original Japanese text on which the English translation is based.

Product details

• Authors: Carl Bielefeldt, William M. Bodiford, Sarah J. Horton, John R. McRae
• Assisted by: T Griffith Foulk (Editor), T. Griffith Foulk (Editor), Carl Bielefeldt (Translation), William M Bodiford (Translation), William M. Bodiford (Translation), T Griffith Foulk (Translation), T. Griffith Foulk (Translation), Sarah J. Horton (Translation), John R McRae (Translation), John R. McRae (Translation)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780824890001
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-9000-1
• No. of pages: 1368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 66 mm
• Weight: 1882 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions