Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Conventions xiii
5. I. Translator’s Introduction
6. Chinul’s Excerpts and the Sudden / Gradual Debate in East Asian Buddhism 3
7. Excerpts as Chinul’s Religious Autobiography 7
8. The Title of the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record 12
9. Zongmi’s and Chinul’s Treatments of the Four Chan / Sŏn Schools 17
10. Numinous Awareness and Tracing Back the Radiance 31
11. Excerpts and the Debates Concerning Sudden vs. Gradual Enlightenment 34
12. Sudden Awakening / Gradual Cultivation: Chinul’s Preferred Soteriology of Moderate Subitism 35
13. Different Soteriological Schemata 45
14. Problems with Radical Subitism 51
15. Radical Subitism and the Kanhwa Technique 57
16. Contemporary Critiques of Chinul’s Moderate Subitism 68
17. Must Kanhwa Sŏn Entail Radical Subitism? 70
18. Excerpts’ Legacy in Korean Buddhism 76
19. II. Translation
20. Chinul’s Excerpts from the “Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record” with Inserted Personal Notes: An Annotated Translation 95
21. I. Chinul’s Preface 97
22. II. Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record 99
23. III. Chinul’s Exposition 120
24. Appendix: Complete Table of Contents of Chinul’s Excerpts 195
25. Abbreviations 199
26. Notes 201
27. Bibliography 277
28. Index 305
29. About the Translator 327