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Reimagining Chan Buddhism (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) - Hardcover

Book 74 of 77: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

Yu, Jimmy

 
9781032048444: Reimagining Chan Buddhism (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032048441 ISBN 13: 9781032048444
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book is the first socio-intellectual history of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan (Zen), a new lineage of Buddhism founded by the late Chinese Buddhist cleric, Sheng Yen (1931–2009)―arguably one of the most influential Chan masters in contemporary times.

The book challenges the received academic and popular image of Chan Buddhism as a meditation school that bypasses scriptural learning. Using Sheng Yen’s doctrinal classification (Chn. panjiao) chart as an example, the book shows Sheng Yen’s Chan as a synthesis of both Indian and Chinese premodern forms of Buddhism, and as the summum bonum of Han transmission of Chinese Buddhism (Chn. Hanchuan fojiao). The book demonstrates how Sheng Yen’s presentation of Chan was intimately related to the volatile social and political realities of his life―the Communist takeover of China and the subsequent industrial boom that impacted Taiwanese society. In short, this book presents a historically and culturally embodied approach to the formation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Drawing on the works of postcolonial theories that integrate the role of the researcher into the research, the book also offers a more integrated approach between emic and etic, insider and outsider perspectives to research.

Advancing the field of Buddhist studies, the book will be of interest to scholars of Buddhism in the modern period, twentieth-century religious history of China and Taiwan, Chan/Zen studies, World Religions, Asian civilizations, and Modern Biographies.

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About the Author

Jimmy Yu is Associate Professor of Chinese Buddhism and Religions in the Department of Religion, Florida State University, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032048441
ISBN 13 
9781032048444
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
226