| Description |
ix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
RoutledgeCurzon studies in Asian religion |
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RoutledgeCurzon studies in Asian religion.
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| Contents |
1. Chan and Zen studies: the state of the field(s) / Bernard Faure -- 2. Imagining the portrait of a Chan master / Wendi Adamek -- 3. On the ritual use of Chan portraiture in medieval China / T. Griffith Foulk and Robert H. Sharf -- 4. A Tang dynasty Chan mummy (roushen) and a modern case of furta sacra?: investigating the contested bones of Shitou Xiqian / James Robson -- 5. Filling the Zen shu: notes on the Jisshu Yodo Ki / Carl Bielefeldt -- 6. Quand l'habit fait le moine: the symbolism of the kasaya in Soto Zen / Bernard Faure -- 7. The enlightenment of kami and ghosts: spirit ordinations in Japanese Soto Zen / William M. Bodiford -- 8. How Dosho's medicine saved Dogen: medicine, Doshoan and Edo-period Dogen biographies / Duncan Ryuken Williams |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Zen Buddhism -- Rituals -- History.
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Zen Buddhism -- History.
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| Author |
Faure, Bernard.
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| LC no. |
2002037042 |
| ISBN |
0415297486 alkaline paper |
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