Description: Further DetailsTitle: Fathering Your FatherCondition: NewSubtitle: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang BuddhismISBN-10: 0520254856EAN: 9780520254855ISBN: 9780520254855Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/09/2009Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 499gAuthor: Alan ColeGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Fathering Your Father
Title: Fathering Your Father
Subtitle: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
ISBN-10: 0520254856
EAN: 9780520254855
ISBN: 9780520254855
Release Date: 02/09/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fathering Your Father : the Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Buddhism / Zen (See Also Philosophy / Zen), Asia / China
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Alan Cole
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
