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The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue: Smashing the Mind of Samsara
Jeffrey; Broughton
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Description for The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue: Smashing the Mind of Samsara
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HRE; HRKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of the elite class in Chinese society, and to two Chan masters, these letters are dharma talks on how to engage in Buddhist cultivation. Each of the letters to laymen is fascinating as a document directed to a specific scholar-official with his distinctive niche, high or low, in the Song-dynasty social-political landscape, and his idiosyncratic stage of development on the ... Read more
The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of the elite class in Chinese society, and to two Chan masters, these letters are dharma talks on how to engage in Buddhist cultivation. Each of the letters to laymen is fascinating as a document directed to a specific scholar-official with his distinctive niche, high or low, in the Song-dynasty social-political landscape, and his idiosyncratic stage of development on the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190664169
SKU
V9780190664169
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About Jeffrey; Broughton
Jeffrey L. Broughton is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the author of The Chan Whip Anthology and The Record of Linji
Reviews for The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue: Smashing the Mind of Samsara
The Letters of Dahui - essential Chan/Zen reading for centuries now available to us! Written by the greatest Chan master of the Song to prominent lay people rather than to monks, these letters highlight the question of how to live a life of Zen in the midst of a noisy and contentious world - perfect for our time! ... Read more