By Peter D. Hershock
Unlike many scholarly stories, which supply distinctive views on ancient improvement, or courses for private perform written by means of modern Buddhist academics, this quantity takes a center direction among those ways, weaving jointly either historical past and perception to exhibit to the overall reader the stipulations, strength, and creativity that symbolize Chan. Following a survey of the delivery and improvement of Chan, its practices and spirituality are fleshed out via tales and teachings drawn from the lives of 4 masters: Bodhidharma, Huineng, Mazu, and Linji. eventually, the that means of Chan as a residing religious culture is addressed via a philosophical studying of its perform because the awareness of knowledge, attentive mastery, and ethical clarity.
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