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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

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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

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Language: English

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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 (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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Keywords: China ; Zen-Buddhismus ; Meditation

DOI: 10.1515/9780824886875

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

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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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DOI: 10.1515/9780824889074

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p)

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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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Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824891596

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (480 p) , 4 b&w illustrations

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ISBN: 9780824886868

Series Statement: Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism 18

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Part I Introduction to the Chan Essentials and Methods for Curing -- Chapter 1. Meditation and Meditation Literature in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism -- Chapter 2. Buddhist Meditation according to the Chan Essentials and Methods for Curing -- Chapter 3. Ritual Repentance, Buddha Bodies, and Somatic Soteriology -- Chapter 4. Textual Histories and the Making of Chinese Meditation Scriptures -- Part II. Translations of the Chan Essentials and Methods for Curing -- Introduction to the Translations -- Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan: Chan Essentials (Chan mi yao fa jing 禪祕要法經) -- Secret Essential Methods for Curing Meditation Sickness: Methods for Curing (Zhi chan bing mi yao fa 治禪病祕要法) -- Appendices -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Content: In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long been familiar with the approaches to meditation of the Chan (Zen) School that later became so popular throughout East Asia, these earlier and in some ways more pervasive forms of practice have long been overlooked or ignored. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which these approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing).Translated here into English for the first time, these documents reveal a distinctly visionary form of Buddhist meditation whose goal is the acquisition of concrete, symbolic visions attesting to the practitioner’s purity and progress toward liberation. Both texts are “apocryphal” scriptures: Taking the form of Indian Buddhist sutras translated into Chinese, they were in fact new compositions, written or at least assembled in China in the first half of the fifth century. Though written in China, their historical significance extends beyond the East Asian context as they are among the earliest written sources anywhere to record certain kinds of information about Buddhist meditation that hitherto had been the preserve of oral tradition and personal initiation. To this extent they indeed divulge, as their titles claim, the “secrets” of Buddhist meditation. Through them, we witness a culture of Buddhist meditation that has remained largely unknown but which for many centuries was widely shared across North India, Central Asia, and China

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Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824886868

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (286 p)

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ISBN: 9780824889647

Series Statement: Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials 11

Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Part I Translators’ Introduction -- Translators’ Introduction -- Part II Translation -- Preface -- Volume 1, Liquor and Food, Part 1 -- Volume 1, Liquor and Food, Part 2 -- Volume 4, Pregnancy and First Aid -- 1. Units of Weight and Measure -- 2. The Sexagenary Cycle -- 3. Twenty-Four Divisions of the Year -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Content: This volume is a fully annotated translation of an early nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch’ongsŏ (The Encyclopedia of Daily Life). Written by Lady Yi (1759–1824) as a household management aid for her daughters and daughters-in-law, the work is a treasure trove of information on how women of higher status in the late Chosŏn (1392–1910) ran their households and conducted their daily lives. The encyclopedia opens with lengthy sections on making beverages and brewing a wide array of liquors (as well as remedies for the overconsumption of alcohol) and contains dozens of recipes for dishes ranging from numerous types of kimch’i to confections and rice cakes. The second part of the translation concerns prenatal care, childbirth, childrearing, and first aid for a large number of afflictions and medical conditions. An extensive introduction will help readers understand the times in which Lady Yi wrote her encyclopedia and the influences that fostered her love of scholarship. The work demonstrates the full sweep of her authority in the domestic sphere and the many aspects of day-to-day life that women needed to prepare for and manage. Her mastery of East Asian cosmology comes across clearly in her use of this knowledge to account for the workings of the world, the processes required to take care of one’s body, and interactions between humans and the natural world.The Encyclopedia of Daily Life will be an important reference for those studying medicine, botany, and the preparation of foodstuffs in premodern East Asian societies. It will also be a valuable linguistic reference to the Korean language during the late Chosŏn

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DOI: 10.1515/9780824889647

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (472 p.) , 92 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780824892876

Series Statement: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism 46

Content: Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist schools, including Sōtō Zen in the thirteenth century. In Memory, Music, Manuscripts, Michaela Mross elegantly combines the study of premodern manuscripts and woodblock prints with ethnographic fieldwork to illuminate the historical development of the highly musical kōshiki rituals performed by Sōtō Zen clerics. She demonstrates how ritual change is often shaped by factors outside the ritual context per se—by, for example, institutional interests, evolving biographic images of eminent monks, or changes in the cultural memory of a particular lineage. Her close study of the fascinating world of kōshiki in Sōtō Zen sheds light on Buddhism as a lived religion and the interplay of ritual, doctrine, literature, collective memory, material culture, and music.Mross highlights in particular the importance of the sonic dimension in rituals. Scholars of Buddhist and ritual studies have largely overlooked the soundscapes of rituals despite the importance of music for many ritual specialists and the close connection between the acquisition of ritual expertise and learning to vocalize sacred texts or play musical instruments. Indeed, Sōtō clerics strive to perfect their vocal skills and view kōshiki and the singing of liturgical texts as vital Zen practices and an expression of buddhahood—similar to seated meditation.Innovative and groundbreaking, Memory, Music, Manuscripts is the first in-depth study of kōshiki in Zen Buddhism and the first monograph in English on this influential liturgical genre. A companion website featuring video recordings of selected kōshiki performances is available at https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/dq109wp7548

Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Preface , Abbreviations , Conventions , Introduction , Part One. Development and Performance of Kōshiki , Chapter 1. History of Kōshiki , Chapter 2. Ritual Structure of Sōtō Kōshiki , Chapter 3. Kōshiki as Music Practice , Part Two. Kōshiki and Collective Memory: The Case of Keizan , Chapter 4. Early Modern Lineage Divergences , Chapter 5. Innovations in the Meiji Era , Epilogue , Appendices: Kōshiki Commemorating Keizan , Bibliography , Index , In English

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DOI: 10.1515/9780824892876

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