Zen Buddhism: a history/ Heinrich Dumoulin, translated by James W. Heisig and Paul Knitter

Part One: Beginnings and Roots in India
.i. Sakyamuni, the Enlightened One
The Figure of the Buddha The Great Experience
The Transmission of Enlightenment
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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
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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
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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