Introduction: Rethinking ritual practice in Zen Buddhism / Dale S. Wright -- Ritual in Japanese Zen Buddhism / T. Griffith Foulk -- Chan rituals of the abbots' ascending the dharma hall to preach / Mario Poceski -- Buddhist rituals for protecting the country in medieval Japan: Myōan Eisai's "Regulations of the Zen school" / Albert Welter -- Is Dōgen's Eiheiji temple "Mt. T'ien-t'ung East"?: geo-ritual perspectives on the transition from Chinese Ch'an to Japanese Zen / Steven Heine -- Zazen as an enactment ritual / Taigen Dan Leighton -- Women and Dōgen: rituals actualizing empowerment and healing -- Paula K.R. Arai -- Invocation of the sage: the ritual to glorify the emperor / Michel Mohr -- Meditation in motion: textual exegesis in the creation of ritual / David E. Riggs -- Dharma transmission in theory and practice / William M. Bodiford
Summary
Written by prominent scholars, this text covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan and key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai and Caodon/Soto schools. It describes how rituals mould the lives of its practitioners in accordance with the ideal of Zen awakening
