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Zusatztext "[Cole] offers an exciting way to examine early Chan Buddhist literature." Informationen zum Autor Alan Cole is Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College. He is the author of Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism and Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature (UC Press). Klappentext " Fathering Your Father is indubitably an important! timely work. In this incisive re-reading of the sources for the early history of Chinese Chan Buddhism! Cole conveys a new understanding of material familiar to scholars that might well make students engage with these sources more imaginatively. Hitherto scholars have pored over the five or six key sources; now we are invited to read them as successive literary inventions. In short! this study has no competition and is bound to provoke debate."-T. H. Barrett! Professor of East Asian History! School of Oriental and African Studies! London! and author of The Woman Who Discovered Printing Zusammenfassung This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how and why certain literary tropes were chosen to depict the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers, this analysis focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies—the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. This book argues that early Chan's image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tradition was constructed for reasons that have little to do with Buddhist practice, new styles of enlightened wisdom, or "orthodoxy," and much more to do with politics, property, geography, and, of course, new forms of writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1. Healthy Skepticism! and a Field Theory for the Emergence of Chan Literature 2. The State of Enlightenment: The Empire of Truth in Zhiyi's Legacy and Xinxing's Sect of the Three Levels 3. Owning It: Shaolin Monastery's In-house Buddha 4. The Future of an Illusion: Du Fei Hijacks Shaolin's Truth-Fathers 5. My Life as a Buddha: Jingjue's Version of the Truth-Fathers 6. Shenhui's "Stop Thief" Bid to Be the Seventh Son Conclusion: Assessing the Hole at the Beginning of It All Chinese Glossary References Index ...
