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Readings of the Gateless Barrier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chinese Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228, it contains forty-eight Zen stories of spiritual awakening called “public cases” or gong’ans (known as kōans in Japanese and kongans in Korean). This book presents a new English translation with close readings and creative analyses of the Gateless Barrier from both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, allowing a range of readers to venture into the rich world of Chan and Zen.Specialist contributors offer insights on historical context, literary structure, philosophical implications, and gendered dimensions, as well as the embodied practice and contemporary experience of the stories in the Gateless Barrier. By bringing together academic expertise with experiential insight from Zen teachers, this book provides a grounded and nuanced account of how the Gateless Barrier has been—and continues to be—practiced and lived in China, Korea, Japan, and the West.An innovative and sophisticated study, this book is ideal for university classroom use, and it also makes the Gateless Barrier accessible to other first-time readers, Buddhist practitioners, and scholars.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-01-07
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieColumbia Readings of Buddhist Literature
Antal sidor368
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231207362

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Buddhism inom Filosofi och religion
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A Note to the ReaderIntroduction: The Gateless Barrier in Context, by Jimmy Yu1. The Gong’an Tradition in the Gateless Barrier as a “Special Transmission Outside the Teaching,” by Albert Welter2. Dahui Zong’gao and His Impact on the Gateless Barrier, by Jimmy Yu3. The Gateless Barrier and the Locus of Truth, by Jin Y. Park4. Paradox in the Gateless Barrier, by Robert H. Sharf5. Testing, Contesting, Besting: Ambiguity in Gong’an Dialogues, by Steven Heine6. A Gate of Their Own?: Women in Wumen’s World, by Natasha Heller7. Public Cases in Korean Sŏn Buddhism, byJuhn Y. Ahn8. From Secrecy to Openness: The Gateless Barrier in Premodern Japanese Zen, by Marta Sanvido9. Kōan Kufū: Embodying the Kōan in Rinzai Zen Practice, by Meido Moore10. On Kōan Training, by Jan Chozen BaysTranslation of the Gateless BarrierA Survey of English Translations of the Gateless BarrierCross-Reference to Citations of the Gateless BarrierCharacter GlossaryBibliographyContributorsIndex

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