TY - BOOK AU - Dumoulin, Heinrich AU - Heisig, W. tr. AU - Knitter, Paul tr. TI - Zen Buddhism: a history SN - 9788120832992 U1 - 294.3927 PY - 2008/// CY - Delhi PB - MBP KW - Zen Buddhism -- History. KW - Zen Buddhism N1 - Part One: Beginnings and Roots in India .i. Sakyamuni, the Enlightened One The Figure of the Buddha The Great Experience The Transmission of Enlightenment y The Zen Buddhist View of Sakyamuni 2. The Yogic Element in Buddhism Essential Characteristics of Yoga The Practice of Meditation in Indian Buddhism Nirvana: The Final Goal of the Buddhist Way \ The Roots of Zen in Yoga 3. The Essentials of Mahayana The Beginnings of Mahayana The Bodhisattva Ideal Buddhology The History of Mahayana Buddhism • 4. The Mahayana Sutras and Zen The Spiritual and Intellectual Context of Zen The Sutras of Perfect Wisdom—Prajnaparamita The Doctrine of Totality—Avatamsaka (Hua-yen) The Response of Silence—Vimalakirti Psychological Perspectives—^The Lankavatara Sutra Part Two: Origins and Blossoming in China 5. Preparations in Chinese Buddhism The Historical Understanding of Zen The Reception of Buddhism in China Kumarajiva and the School of the "Middle Way" Seng-chao Tao-sheng 6. The Early Period Bodhidharma-History and Legend The Image of Bodhidharma in Zen History Hui-k'o and Seng-ts'an Tao-hsin and Hung-jen 7. The Split between the Northern and Southern Schools The "Suddenness" of the South and "Gradualness" of the North The Northern School The Claim of the Southern School The Ox-Head School 8. The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch The Tun-huang Text and its Sources The Biography of Hui-neng .Sudden Enlightenment as Seeing into One's Nature 1rhe Mahayana Doctrines of No-Mind and the Buddha Nature 9. The Zen Movement after Hui-neng The Beginnings of the "Zen of the Patriarchs Schools and Currents The Two Main Lines of Chinese Zen Strange Words and Extraordinary Actions Monastic Life 10. Lin-chi The Generational Line From the Life of Lin-chi Themes from the Rinzairoku Lin-chi and His School 11. Characteristics of the Five Houses The Persecution of Buddhism The "Five Houses" Kuei-yang: Experience in Action Lin-chi: Threefold and Fourfold Formulas Ts'ao-tung: "The Five Ranks" Yiin-men: "The One-Word Barriers" Fa-yen: The Interpenetration of Attributes 12. The Sung Period: A Time of Maturation Zen and the Spirit of the Age Koan Practice and Koan Collections I Aspects of the Koan Method The Two Mainstreams of Zen 13. Developments in Culture and Society The "five Mountains" and "Ten Temples" Zen Buddhism and the Neo-Confucians Zen Art Syncretistic Tendencies and Decline ER -