The Sudden and the Gradual in Chinese Poetry Criticism: An Examination of the Ch'an-Poetry Analogy

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Introduction 1
6. I. The Sudden and Gradual Debates
7. The Mirror of the Mind 13
8. Sudden Illumination or Simultaneous Comprehension: Remarks on Chinese and Tibetan Terminology 41
9. Purifying Gold: The Metaphor of Effort and Intuition in Buddhist Thought and Practice 67
10. II. Sudden and Gradual Enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism
11. Tao-sheng's Theory of Sudden Enlightenment Re-examined 167
12. Sudden and Gradual Intimately Conjoined: Chih-i's T'ien-t'ai View 201
13. Shen-hui and the Teaching of Sudden Enlightenment in Early Ch'an Buddhism 227
14. Sudden Enlightenment Followed by Gradual Cultivation: Tsung-mi's Analysis of Mind 279
15. The "Short-cut" Approach of K'an-hua Meditation: The Evolution of a Practical Subitism in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism 321
16. III. Analogies in the Cultural Sphere
17. The Sudden and the Gradual in Chinese Poetry Criticism: An Examination of the Ch'an-Poetry Analogy 381
18. Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's "Southern and Northern Schools" in the History and Theory of Painting: A Reconsideration 429
19. Afterword 447
20. Contributors 457
21. Index 461