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Chan before Chan : meditation, repentance, and visionary experience in Chinese Buddhism /

"Chan Before Chan is a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan) in China during the era before the rise of the "Chan School" (better known as "Zen") of the eighth-century and beyond, with a particular focus on the semiotics of meditative and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greene, Eric M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2021.
Colección:Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Meditation Practice, Meditation Masters, and Meditation Texts
  • Chapter 2. Confirmatory Visions and the Semiotics of Meditative Experience
  • Chapter 3. Visions of Karma
  • Chapter 4. Repentance
  • Chapter 5. From chan to Chan
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author