LEADER 03870nam 22005295 450 001 9910136611703321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-520-95975-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520959750 035 $a(CKB)3710000000903285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16465218 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15007321 035 $a(PQKB)20404782 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4519328 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001665459 035 $a(DE-B1597)519722 035 $a(OCoLC)950084370 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520959750 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000903285 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPatriarchs on Paper $eA Critical History of Medieval Chan Literature /$fAlan Cole 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (341 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-28407-0 311 $a0-520-28406-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tA note on references to the Chinese Buddhist canon -- $tIntroduction. Chan-What Is It? -- $t1. Making History: Chan as an Art Form -- $t2. Plans for the Past. Early Accounts of How Perfect Truth Came to China -- $t3. Portable Ancestors. Bodhidharma Gets Two New Families -- $t4. More Local Buddhas Appear. Jingjue, Huineng, and Shenhui -- $t5. Truth, Conspiracy, and Careful Writing A New Version of Huineng -- $t6. The Platform S?tra and Other Conspiracy Theories -- $t7. Chan "Dialogues" from the Tang Dynasty -- $t8. Chan Compendiums from the Song Dynasty -- $t9. Rules for Purity. Handbooks for Running Chan Monasteries -- $t10. Koans and Being There -- $tConclusions. Chan, a Buddhist Beauty -- $tBibliography -- $tGlossary -- $tIndex 330 $aThe truth of Chan Buddhism-better known as "Zen"-is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors-medieval and modern-produced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries. To make sense of this well-known paradox, Patriarchs on Paper explores several genres of Chan literature that appeared during the Tang and Song dynasties (c. 600-1300), including genealogies, biographies, dialogues, poems, monastic handbooks, and koans. Working through this diverse body of literature, Alan Cole details how Chan authors developed several strategies to evoke images of a perfect Buddhism in which wonderfully simple masters transmitted Buddhism's final truth to one another, suddenly and easily, and, of course, independent of literature and the complexities of the Buddhist monastic system. Chan literature, then, reveled in staging delightful images of a Buddhism free of Buddhism, tempting the reader, over and over, with the possibility of finding behind the thick façade of real Buddhism-with all its rules, texts, doctrines, and institutional solidity-an ethereal world of pure spirit. Patriarchs on Paper charts the emergence of this kind of "fantasy Buddhism" and details how it interacted with more traditional forms of Chinese Buddhism in order to show how Chan's illustrious ancestors were created in literature in order to further a wide range of real-world agendas. 606 $aZen literature, Chinese$zChina$xHistory and criticism 606 $aZen Buddhism$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 615 0$aZen literature, Chinese$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aZen Buddhism$xHistory of doctrines 676 $a294.39270951 700 $aCole$b Alan, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01249582 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136611703321 996 $aPatriarchs on Paper$92895740 997 $aUNINA