Early Chan Buddhism: A Meditation Movement or New Ways of Writing about Final Authority in Tang China?
This essay argues that the long-standing assumption that Chan Buddhism began as a meditation movement is outdated and needs to be replaced by a paradigm that sees the origins of Chan in a set of literary inventions that took form in the mid-Tang era and were designed to prove that the totality of tr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2024
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Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 4 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B fantasy Buddhism B Zen B Chan B Authority B Daoism B literary seduction |
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