The power of patriarchs : Qisong and lineage in Chinese Buddhism /

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Author / Creator:	Morrison, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:	viii, 305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 94 Sinica Leidensia ; v. 94.
Subject:	Qisong, -- 1007-1071. Qisong, -- 1007-1071. Zen priests -- China -- Lineage -- History. Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Zen Buddhism. Zen Buddhism -- China -- History. Zen Buddhism. Zen priests -- Lineage. China. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8005007

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Varying Form of Title:	Qisong and lineage in Chinese Buddhism
ISBN:	9789004183018 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004183019 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Revision of the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--Stanford University, 2004). Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Chinese Buddhism, Lineage, and Qisong
Part 1. The Genealogy of Lineage
Chapter 1. Buddhist Notions of Succession and Transmission in India and Pre-Chan China
Chapter 2. The Emergence of Chan Lineage
Part 2. The Life of Qisong
Chapter 3. The Life of Qisong
Chapter 4. "The Great Succession is not Clear": Qisong's Composition of the True Lineage Texts and the Campaign for their Acceptance at Court
Part 3. Qisong on Lineage and History
Chapter 5. Qisong as Historian: A Reading of the First Fascicle of the Critical Essay on the True Lineage of the Transmission of the Dharma
Chapter 6. Qisong on Lineage: The Critical Essay Revised and Defended
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Translation of the Critical Essay
Bibliography
Index

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