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Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
Alan Cole
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Description for Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
Paperback. Offers a rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). This work focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1556.
This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how and why certain literary tropes were chosen to depict the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers, this analysis focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. This book argues that early Chan's image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tradition was constructed for reasons that have little to do with Buddhist practice, new styles of enlightened ... Read more
This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how and why certain literary tropes were chosen to depict the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers, this analysis focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. This book argues that early Chan's image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tradition was constructed for reasons that have little to do with Buddhist practice, new styles of enlightened ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520254855
SKU
V9780520254855
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About Alan Cole
Alan Cole is Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College. He is the author of Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism and Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature (UC Press).
Reviews for Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
"A detailed study ... Cole fills in important details about the Chan patriarch fabrication from the seventh and eighth century." Buddhadharma "[Cole] offers an exciting way to examine early Chan Buddhist literature."
Jack Meng-Tat Chia Buddhist Studies Review
Jack Meng-Tat Chia Buddhist Studies Review