Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. Annotated bibliography, list of personal names, and index. xxxii + 488 pp. Cloth, $55.00. isbn 978-0-8248-2821-9; paper, $27.00. isbn 978-0-8248-2821-0.
關鍵詞
Linji
摘要
The publication of the Record of Linji (Ch. Linji lu, Jp. Rinzai roku) with the annotation by the group led by Ruth Fuller Sasaki (RFS) is an important event in Western Chan (Jp. Zen) studies. The Linji lu purports to contain the recorded sermons of Chinese Chan master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), as well as a number of stories about him, and is a key text of the historically powerful Linji tradition of Chan (Jp. Rinzai Zen). Scholars have long known about the large body of research on the Linji lu that was left behind when RFS died suddenly in 1967, but only the notes and annotated bibliography in the long-out-of-print Zen Dust (with Isshu Miura, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967) could give any real hint of the nature of this material. Through Thomas Kirchner’s painstaking work we now have a highly useful and beautifully polished edition of the group’s work on the Linji lu, the core of which is a translation of the Linji lu with an enormous, and enormously useful, note apparatus...
