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ISBN: 0028657187

Language: English

Keywords: Buddhismus ; Wörterbuch

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Format: S. 479 - 981 , Ill , 29 cm

ISBN: 0028657209

Series Statement: Encyclopedia of Buddhism / Robert E. Buswell, Jr., ed. in chief Vol. 2

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Language: English

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Format: XXXIX, 477 S , Ill., Kt , 29 cm

ISBN: 0028657195

Series Statement: Encyclopedia of Buddhism / Robert E. Buswell, Jr., ed. in chief Vol. 1

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Language: English

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Format: XXXIX, 477 S. , Ill., Kt.

ISBN: 0028657195

In: 1

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Buddhismus ; Wörterbuch

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Format: S. 479 - 981 , Ill., Kt.

ISBN: 0028657209

In: 2

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Buddhismus ; Wörterbuch

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (432 p) , 8 b&w illustrations

Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]

ISBN: 9780824889074

Series Statement: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism 40

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Part One. A Poetry of Their Own -- Part Two. Poetry and the Way -- Part Three. Monks and Literary Sociality -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Poems by Title -- Bibliography -- Index

Content: Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about the large corpora—roughly 30,000 extant poems—composed by these monastics. Protass addresses the oversight by using strategies associated with religious studies, literary studies, and sociology. He weaves together poetry with a wide range of monastic sources and in doing so argues against positing a “literary Chan” movement that wrote poetry as a path to awakening; he instead presents an understanding of monks’ poetry grounded in the Song discourse of monks themselves.The work begins by examining how monks fashioned new genres, created their own books, and fueled a monastic audience for monks’ poetry. It traces the evolution of gāthā from hymns found in Buddhist scripture to an independent genre for poems associated with Chan masters as living buddhas. While Song monastic culture produced a prodigious amount of verse, at the same time it promoted prohibitions against monks’ participation in poetry as a worldly or Confucian art: This constructive tension was an animating force. The Poetry Demon highlights this and other intersections of Buddhist doctrine with literary sociality and charts productive pathways through numerous materials, including collections of Chan “recorded sayings,” monastic rulebooks, “eminent monk” and “flame record” hagiographies, manuscripts of poetry, Buddhist encyclopedia, primers, and sūtra commentary.Two chapter-length case studies illustrate how Song monks participated in two of the most prominent and conservative modes of poetry of the time, those of parting and mourning. Protass reveals how monks used Chan humor with reference to emptiness to transform acts of separation into Buddhist teachings. In another chapter, monks in mourning expressed their grief and dharma through poetry. The Poetry Demon impressively uncovers new and creative ways to study Chinese Buddhist monks’ poetry while contributing to the broader study of Chinese religion and literature

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Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824889074

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (456 p)

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ISBN: 9780824883041

Series Statement: Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials 8

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Part I. Translator’s Introduction -- Part II. Translation: New Tales of the Golden Turtle (Kŭmo sinhwa) -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Translator

Content: One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1897), and this book is widely recognized as marking the beginning of classical fiction in Korea.The present volume features an extensive study of Kim and the Kŭmo sinhwa, followed by a copiously annotated, complete English translation of the tales from the oldest extant edition. The translation captures the vivaciousness of the original, while the annotations reveal the work’s complexity, unraveling the deep and diverse intertextual connections between the Kŭmo sinhwa and preceding works of Chinese and Korean literature and philosophy. The Kŭmo sinhwa can thus be read and appreciated as a hybrid work that is both distinctly Korean and Sino-centric East Asian. A translator’s introduction discusses this hybridity in detail, as well as the unusual life and tumultuous times of Kim Sisŭp; the Kŭmo sinhwa’s creation and its translation and transformation in early modern Japan and twentieth-century (especially North) Korea and beyond; and its characteristics as a work of dissent.Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk will be welcomed by Korean and East Asian studies scholars and students, yet the body of the work—stories of strange affairs, fantastic realms, seductive ghosts, and majestic but eerie beings from the netherworld—will be enjoyed by academics and non-specialist readers alike

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Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824883041

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (480 p.) , 2 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780824893293

Series Statement: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism 47

Content: Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and ordinations. Some medieval Japanese exegetes, however, were obsessively concerned with these topics as they strove to understand what it meant to be a Buddhist. This landmark collection of essays by Paul Groner, one of the leading authorities on Tendai Buddhism, examines the medieval Tendai School, which dominated Japanese Buddhism at that time, to uncover the differences in understanding and interpreting monastic precepts and ordinations. Rather than provide an unbroken narrative account—made virtually impossible due to the number of undated apocryphal texts and those lost in the numerous fires and warfare that beset Tendai temples as well as the difficulties of tracing how texts were used—Groner employs a multifaceted approach, focusing on individual monks, texts, ceremonies, exegetical problems, and institutional issues. Early chapters look at a major source of Tendai precepts, the apocryphal Brahma’s Net Sutra; the Tendai scholar Annen’s (b. 841) interpretations of the universal bodhisattva precept ordination and the historical background of his commentary on the subject; Tendai perfect-sudden precepts and the Vinaya; and the role of confession in the bodhisattva ordination. Groner goes on to discuss the Lotus Sutra, another key text for Tendai precepts, and the monk Koen (1262–1317) and his role in developing the consecrated ordination, which is still performed today. Later essays introduce Jitsudo Ninku’s (1307–1388) system of training by doctrinal debate and his commentary on ordinations; doctrinal discussions of killing; and Tendai discussions among several lineages on whether the precepts can be lost or violated. Many of the issues discussed in the volume—particularly how to distinguish various types of Buddhist practitioners and how to conduct ordinations—continue to preoccupy Tendai monks centuries later. The book concludes with an examination of the effects of early Tendai precepts on modern practice

Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Foreword , Acknowledgments , Conventions and Abbreviations , 1. Introducing the Precepts and Outlining the Chapters of This Book , 2. The Brahma’s Net Sutra Precepts , 3. Annen’s Interpretation of the Tendai Ordination: Its Background and Later Influence , 4. Annen, Tankei, Henjō, and Monastic Discipline in the Tendai School: The Background of Annen’s Futsūju Bosatsukai Kōshaku (Extensive commentary on the universal bodhisattva precept ordination) , 5. Japanese Tendai Perfect-Sudden Precepts and the Vinaya , 6. The Role of Confession in Chinese and Japanese Tiantai/Tendai Bodhisattva Ordinations , 7. The Lotus Sutra and the Perfect-Sudden Precepts , 8. Kōen and the Consecrated Ordination , 9. Ritually Embodying the Lotus Sutra: An Interpretation of the Consecrated Ordination in the Kurodani Lineage , 10. Training through Debates in Medieval Tendai and Seizan-ha Temples , 11. Jitsudō Ninkū on Ordinations , 12. Doctrinal Discussions of Killing in Medieval Tendai Texts , 13. Can the Precepts Be Lost? Can the Precepts Be Violated? The Role of the Record of the Meaning of the Bodhisattva Precepts in Medieval Tendai Discourse , 14. Summing Up the Medieval Tendai Precepts and Tracing Those Themes to the Modern Period , Afterword , Glossary , Bibliography , Index , About the Author , In English

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824893293

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (464 p) , 8 b&w illustrations

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ISBN: 9780824886875

Series Statement: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism 39

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Meditation Practice, Meditation Masters, and Meditation Texts -- Chapter 2. Confirmatory Visions and the Semiotics of Meditative Experience -- Chapter 3. Visions of Karma -- Chapter 4. Repentance -- Chapter 5. From chan to Chan -- Epilogue -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Content: What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. In sharp contrast to what would become typical in the later Chan School, early Chinese Buddhists approached the ancient Buddhist practice of meditation primarily as a way of gaining access to a world of enigmatic but potentially meaningful visionary experiences. In Chan Before Chan, Eric Greene brings this approach to meditation to life with a focus on how medieval Chinese Buddhists interpreted their own and others’ visionary experiences and the nature of the authority they ascribed to them. Drawing from hagiography, ritual manuals, material culture, and the many hitherto rarely studied meditation manuals translated from Indic sources into Chinese or composed in China in the 400s, Greene argues that during this era meditation and the mastery of meditation came for the first time to occupy a real place in the Chinese Buddhist social world. Heirs to wider traditions that had been shared across India and Central Asia, early medieval Chinese Buddhists conceived of “chan” as something that would produce a special state of visionary sensitivity. The concrete visionary experiences that resulted from meditation were understood as things that could then be interpreted, by a qualified master, as indicative of the mediator’s purity or impurity. Buddhist meditation, though an elite discipline that only a small number of Chinese Buddhists themselves undertook, was thus in practice and in theory constitutively integrated into the cultic worlds of divination and “repentance” (chanhui) that were so important within the medieval Chinese religious world as a whole

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Language: English

Keywords: China ; Zen-Buddhismus ; Meditation

DOI: 10.1515/9780824886875

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p)

Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]

ISBN: 9780824891596

Series Statement: Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials 12

Content: Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea (Tongguk sesigi) is one of the most important primary sources for anyone interested in traditional Korean cultural and social practices. The manuscript was completed in 1849 by Toae Hong Sŏk-mo, a wealthy poet and scholar from an influential family. Toae, with his keen interest in the habits and customs of both courtiers and commoners, compiled in almanac form (he divided his book into chronological sections by lunar and intercalary months) a comprehensive record of seasonal palace events, rituals, entertainment, and food and drink consumed on high days and holidays, as well as information on farm work and traditions. Nineteenth-century Korean intellectuals possessed a deep understanding of Chinese history and culture together with a growing awareness of the distinctiveness of Korea’s past and traditions. Toae’s work reflects this in the many comparisons he makes between the habits and customs of the two countries, "ing literary and philosophical sources to note similarities and contrasts. Knowledge of the seasonal traditions he describes was largely forgotten over the generations as Korea rapidly modernized, but in recent years much effort has been made to recover this wisdom: Tongguk sesigi is now widely read and referenced as a popular source for details on traditional food, customs, and entertainment.While an ever-increasing number of books introducing Korean culture written by non-Koreans or Koreans researching their roots is now available, Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea contains information “from the source” that also reveals the mindset and penchants of a premodern Korean intellectual. Readers will thus be confronted with many concepts, names, and ideas not readily understandable so extensive notes are provided in this translation. Those studying other Asian cultures with some Chinese influence will also find valuable insights here for cross-cultural comparison and research

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DOI: 10.1515/9780824891596

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