Approaches to Chan, Son, and Zen Studies - Chinese Chan Buddhism and Its Spread Throughout East Asia

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, S¿n, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

About the author

Albert Welter is Professor and Head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. His previous books include Religion, Culture, and the Public Sphere in China and Japan, co-edited with Jeffrey Newmark, and A Tale of Two Stūpas: Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in Hangzhou China.Steven Heine is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen and editor of Masao Abe's A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion, both published by SUNY Press. He has also written A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dogen Zen and A Dream within a Dream: Studies in Japanese Thought.Jin Y. Park is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University. She is the author of Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics and the editor of several books, including Buddhisms and Deconstructions.

Product details

• Authors: Albert (EDT)/ Heine Welter, Albert Heine Welter
• Assisted by: Steven Heine (Editor), Jin Y. Park (Editor), Park Jin Y. (Editor), Albert Welter (Editor), Welter Albert (Editor), Buswell Robert E. (Foreword)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9781438490892
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9089-2
• No. of pages: 476
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; Japan, China, Korea, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, PHILOSOPHY / Zen, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Buddhism, History of Religion, Zen Buddhism, Asian History, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy