Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
(Part of the Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824893905
ISBN13:9780824893903
Release Date:January 2022
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:332 Pages
Weight:1.24 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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