The Bodhidharma Anthology

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey L. Broughton is Professor of Religious Studies at California State University! Long Beach. Klappentext "These original documents are crucial for understanding East Asian Buddhist development. Professor Broughton's analysis of the material provides a new and refreshing look at the tradition which was focused on meditation and the ancient lineage of Bodhidharma. . . . We can be grateful that the translations are accompanied by a detailed study that gives the reader access to the social and cultural events of the time."—Lewis Lancaster, University of California, Berkeley Zusammenfassung The discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty, one of the recovered texts was the collection "Bodhidharma Anthology". This text provides a detailed study and an annotated translation of the anthology. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS 1. Introduction I 2. Translation of the Seven Texts of the Bodhidharma Anthology 3· Commentary on the Biography!Two Entrances! and Two Letters 4· Commentary on the Records APPENDIX A: THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE TUN-HUANG CH'AN MANUSCRIPTS APPENDIX B: TOWARD A LITERARY HISTORY OF EARLY CH'AN NOTES GLOSSARY OF CHINESE LOGOGRAPHS WORKS CITED INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Bodhidharma, Jeffrey L Broughton, Jeffrey L. Broughton, Broughton Jeffrey L.
• Assisted by: Jeffrey L. Broughton (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1999
• EAN: 9780520219724
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21972-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Philip E.Lilienthal Books; Philip E.Lilienthal Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Zen Buddhism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval