Eminent nuns : women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China
Beata Grant
Eminent nuns : women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China
Author
Beata GrantPublisher
University of Hawai'i PressEdition 1
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Eminent nuns : women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / Beata GrantPublication Details
هونولولو : University of Hawai'i Press، 2009مPhysical Description
ix, 241 p.; 24 cm.Subject
Buddhist nuns -- China BiographyMonastic and religious life (Zen Buddhism) -- China
Zen Buddhism -- China 17th century -- History
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انگلیسیNotes
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]191[-532( and index.
Contents
Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru