|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism |
|
|
|
| Author |
Welter, Albert
|
|---|
| Date | 2006.02.09 |
|---|
| Pages | 334 |
|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|
| Publisher Url |
http://www.oup.com/us/
|
|---|
| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
|---|
| Content type | 書籍=Book |
|---|
| Language | 英文=English |
|---|
| Keyword | 弘忍大師; 禪宗 |
|---|
| Abstract | The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school of Chinese Buddhism began when, in the seventh century, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. In this book Albert Welter presents, for the first time in a comprehensive fashion in a Western work, the story of the rise of Chan, a story which has been obscured by myths about Zen. Zen apologists in the twentieth century, Welter argues, sold the world on the story of Zen as a transcendental spiritualism untainted by political and institutional involvements. In fact, Welter shows that the opposite is true: relationships between Chan monks and political rulers were crucial to Chan's success. The book concentrates on an important but neglected period of Chan history, the 10th and 11th centuries, when monks and rulers created the so-called Chan "golden age" and the classic principles of Chan identity.
西元七世紀，弘忍大師創立禪宗，此後禪宗在數百年間，由沒沒無聞到廣為人知，進而在中國與東亞一枝獨秀地崛起與發展，如今在國際舞臺上也備受青睞。作者認為，實際上，禪僧與政治領袖的關係正是禪宗之所以興盛的關鍵原因之一，職此之故，本書將研究的觸角伸入10至11世紀之間所謂的「禪的黃金時期」，把禪宗興盛的過程放進歷史脈絡中探其緣由，並檢視禪宗文獻對於這些現象的表述方式，不僅讓我們對亞洲的主流佛教有進一步的認識，並扭轉我們對禪的刻板印象。 |
|---|
| ISBN | 0195175212 |
|---|
| Hits | 991 |
|---|
| Created date | 2006.09.14 |
|---|
| Modified date | 2008.04.03 |
|---|
 |
Best viewed with Chrome, Firefox, Safari(Mac) but not supported IE
|
|
|
