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Numinous awareness is never dark : the Korean Buddhist master Chinul's Excerpts on Zen practice /

Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual--that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chinul, 1158-1210 (Author)
Other Authors: Buswell, Robert E., Jr., 1953- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Korean
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Series:Korean classics library. Philosophy and religion.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Half-title Page; Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Conventions; Part I.: Translator's Introduction; Chinul's Excerpts and the Sudden/Gradual Debate in East Asian Buddhism; Excerpts as Chinul's Religious Autobiography; The Title of the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record; Zongmi's and Chinul's Treatments of the Four Chan/Sŏn Schools; Numinous Awareness and Tracing Back the Radiance; Excerpts and the Debates Concerning Sudden vs. Gradual Enlightenment; Sudden Awakening/Gradual Cultivation: Chinul's Preferred Soteriology of Moderate Subitism.
  • Different Soteriological SchemataProblems with Radical Subitism; Radical Subitism and the Kanhwa Technique; Contemporary Critiques of Chinul's Moderate Subitism; Must Kanhwa Sŏn Entail Radical Subitism?; Excerpts' Legacy in Korean Buddhism; Excerpts and the Fourfold Collection of the Monastic Curriculum; Excerpts' Pivotal Place in the Korean Buddhist Tradition; Part II.: Translation; Chinul's Excerpts from the "Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record" with Inserted Personal Notes: An Annotated Translation; Translator's Note; I Chinul's Preface [741a].
  • II Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Special Practice RecordIII Chinul's Exposition; Appendix: Complete Table of Contents of Chinul's Excerpts; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; About the Translator.