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Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia
Author Wu, Jiang (著)
Date2014.12.12
Pages384
PublisherOxford University Press
Publisher Url https://global.oup.com/?cc=tw
LocationOxford, London, UK [牛津, 倫敦, 英國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteAuthor Affiliation: University of Arizona
Keywordauthenticity crisis; Lionel Trilling; Charles Lindholm; religious authenticity; political authenticity; cultural authenticity; Yinyuan; Zheng Chenggong; seventeenth century; East Asia
AbstractIn 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded a new tradition, called Obaku. In this sequel to his 2008 book, Enlightenment in Dispute, Jiang Wu tells the story of the tremendous obstacles faced by Yinyuan, drawing parallels between his experiences and the broader political and cultural context in which he lived.

Yinyuan claimed to have inherited the "Authentic Transmission of the Linji Sect." After arriving in Japan, he was able to persuade the Shogun to build a new Ming-style monastery for the establishment of his Obaku school. His arrival in Japan coincided with a series of historical developments, including the Ming-Qing transition, the consolidation of early Tokugawa power, the growth of Nagasaki trade, and rising Japanese interests in Chinese learning and artistic pursuits. While Yinyuan's travel is known in scholarly circles, the significance of his journey within East Asian history has not been fully explored. Leaving for the Rising Sun provides a unique opportunity to reexamine the crisis in the continent and responses from other parts of East Asia. Using Yinyuan's story as a bridge between China and Japan, Wu demonstrates that the monk's significance is far greater than the temporary success of a religious sect. Rather, Yinyuan imported to Japan a new discourse of authenticity that gave rise to indigenous movements that challenged, and led to the eventual breakup of, a China-centered world order.
Table of contentsPreface vii
Conventions xi
Chronology xiii
Introduction: Yinyuan as a Symbol of Authenticity 1
1. In Search of Enlightenment: Yinyuan and the Reinvention of the "Authentic Transmission" in Late Ming Buddhist Revival 21
2. Building a Dharma Transmission Monastery: Mount Huangbo in Seventeenth-Century China 53
3. Leaving for the Rising Sun: the Historical Background of Yinyuan's Longqi's Migration to Japan in 1654 81
4. The Taikun's Zen Master from China: The Edo Bakufu and the Founding of Manpukuji in 1661 109
5. The Multiple Lives of a Chinese Monk: Yinyuan as Zen Master, Literary Man, and Thaumaturge 140
6. Authenticity in Dispute: Responses to the Idea of Authenticity in Edo Japan 175
7. Where are the Authentic Monks? The Bakufu's Failed Attempts to Recruit Chinese Monks 209
Conclusion: Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia 243
Notes 269
Works Cited 303
Index 339
ISBN9780199393121 (hc); 9780199393138 (pbk)
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