Chapter 11 Taixu’s History of the Chan Tradition

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chinese Chan and the Greater East Asian Region
7. The Spread of Chan Buddhism 11
8. The Hangzhou Region and the Spread of East Asian Buddhism 35
9. A Greater Vehicle to the Other Shore 69
10. The Japanese Zen Nexus
11. The Transmission of the Blue Cliff Record to Medieval Japan 97
12. Interpreters, Brush-Dialogue, and Poetry 127
13. Doves on My Knees, Golden Dragons in My Sleeves 167
14. The Lute, Lyric Poetry, and Literary Arts in Chinese Chan and Japanese Zen Buddhism 193
15. The Korean Sŏn Nexus
16. Pure Rules and Public Monasteries in Korea 215
17. Gender and Dharma Lineage 239
18. Mindful Interactions and Recalibrations 263
19. Chan, Zen, and Sŏn in the Modern Period
20. Taixu’s History of the Chan Tradition 291
21. Zen Internationalism, Zen Revolution 319
22. The Struggle of the Jogye Order to Define its Identity as a Meditative School in Contemporary Korea 345
23. Bibliography 385
24. Contributors 431
25. Index 435