Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies

Albert Welter is Professor and Head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona and the author of The Administration of Buddhism in China: A Study and Translation of Zanning and the Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy. Steven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History and Director of Asian Studies at Florida International University and the author of Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher. Jin Y. Park is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University and the author of Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp.

• ForewordRobert E. Buswell Jr.PrefaceIntroductionSection I: Chinese Chan and the Greater East Asian Region 1. The Spread of Chan Buddhism: Linguistic and Cultural ConstraintsJohn Jorgensen2. The Hangzhou Region and the Spread of East Asian BuddhismAlbert Welter3. A Greater Vehicle to the Other Shore: Chinese Chan Buddhism and the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Seventeenth CenturyJiang WuSection II: The Japanese Zen Nexus 4. The Transmission of the Blue Cliff Record to Medieval Japan: Textuality and Historicity in Relation to Mythology and DemythologySteven Heine5. Interpreters, Brush-Dialogue, and Poetry: Translingual Communication between Chan and Zen MonksJason Protass6. Doves on My Knees, Golden Dragons in My Sleeves: Emigrant Chan Masters and Early Japanese Zen BuddhismSteffen Doll7. The Lute, Lyric Poetry, and Literary Arts in Chinese Chan and Japanese Zen BuddhismGeorge A. KeyworthSection III: The Korean Sŏn Nexus 8. Pure Rules and Public Monasteries in KoreaJuhn Y. Ahn9. Gender and Dharma Lineage: Nuns in Korean Sŏn BuddhismJin Y. Park10. Mindful Interactions and Recalibrations: From Chinul to T'oegyeKevin N. CawleySection IV: Chan, Zen, and Sŏn in the Modern Period 11. Taixu's History of the Chan TraditionEric Goodell12. Zen Internationalism, Zen Revolution: Inoue Shūten and Uchiyama Gudō and the Crisis of Buddhist Modernity in Late Meiji JapanJames Mark Shields13. The Struggle of the Jogye Order to Define its Identity as a Meditative School in Contemporary KoreaBernard SenecalBibliographyContributorsIndex

"…an impressive collection … [that] showcases just how exciting it is to work on Chan, Sŏn, and Zen today." — Journal of Religion"Scholars of East Asian religions and Buddhism will find a range of inspiring scholarship here." — Religious Studies Review"This book focuses on the much-neglected role of Chan in guiding an international movement of Buddhist philosophy and practice throughout East Asia. The extensive bibliography is itself an invaluable research tool for scholars, drawing on both recent publications and traditional texts. The editors and contributors deftly challenge 'biases inherent in Zen Studies' through approaches that draw on materials that have been overlooked or ignored. The result is a much richer and complex view of Chan and Sŏn Studies reaching beyond long-prevailing, simplistic assumptions about Zen Studies." — Sandra A. Wawrytko, coeditor of Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy