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Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism
Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Conventions
McRae’s Rules of Zen Studies
Chapter 1. Looking at Lineage: A Fresh Perspective on Chan Buddhism
Chapter 2. Beginnings: Differentiating/Connecting Bodhidharma and the East Mountain Teaching
Chapter 3. Metropolitan Chan: Imperial Patronage and the Chan Style
Chapter 4. The Riddle of Encounter Dialogue: Who, What, When, and Where?
Chapter 5. Zen and the Art of Fund-Raising Religious Vitality and Institutional Dominance in the Song Dynasty
Chapter 6. Climax Paradigm: Cultural Polarities and Patterns of Self-Cultivation in Song-Dynasty Chan
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Seeing through Zen
Seeing through Zen Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism
John R. McRae
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley / Los Angeles / London
University of California Press Berkeley a
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Pure Land Buddhism
In a conversation with the Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, I had the opportunity to discuss death and dying. In the Tibetan tradition, the teachings on this topic are vast, so I asked Rinpoche what should be emphasized in presenting this material to the West. His immediate response surprised me: &#;Students need to know more about Pure Lands.&#; Later in our conversation, I asked him another question: &#;If someone was to discover that they had less than a year to live, what practice should they concentrate on?&#; His answer startled me yet again: &#;They should focus on Pure Land practice.&#;
Two weeks after my meeting, I staffed a four-day intensive on death presented by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche. Eighty percent of this program focused on Pure Land Buddhism. In twenty years of involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, I had never been to a single talk on Pure Land Buddhism. Suddenly, within the space of a few weeks, two of the greatest living masters from both the Kagyu and
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