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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Korean |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2016]
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| 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.