Zen Buddhist Rhetoric in China, Korea, and Japan

Christoph Anderl, Dr. Art. (2004), is currently participating in a project (Ruhr University Bochum) on the spread of Buddhist narratives and iconography along the Silk Road, as well as being Guest Professor of East Asian Linguistics at Ghent University. His publications focus on issues concerning medieval Chinese language and Buddhism, including his two-volumed Studies in the Language of Zǔtáng jí (Oslo, Unipub 2004).

• PREFACEIXCONTRIBUTORSXIIICHRISTOPH ANDERL: Chán Rhetoric: An IntroductionJENS BRAARVIG: Rhetoric of EmptinessBART DESSEIN:‘Thus Have I Heard’ and Other Claims to Authenticity: Development of Rhetorical Devices in the Sarvāstivāda Ṣaṭpādābhidharma TextCHRISTOPH HARBSMEIER: Reading the One Hundred Parables Sūtra: The Dialogue Preface and the Gāthā PostfaceCHRISTOPH ANDERL: Coming to Terms with Terms: The Rhetorical Function of Technical Terms in Chán Buddhist TextsHALVOR EIFRING: Beyond Perfection: The Rhetoric of Chán Poetry in Wáng Wéi’s Wǎng Stream CollectionCHRISTIAN WITTERN: Some Preliminary Remarks to a Study of Rhetorical Devices in Chán Yǔlù 禪語錄 Encounter DialoguesWILLIAM M. BODIFORD: The Rhetoric of Chinese Language in Japanese ZenSTEVEN HEINE: Dōgen’s Appropriation of Chinese Chán Sources: Sectarian and Non-Sectarian Rhetorical PerspectivesROBERT BUSWELL: Pojo Chinul 普照知訥 and Kanhwa Sǒn 看話禪: Reconciling the Language of Moderate and Radical SubitismJÖRG PLASSEN: From Apologetics to Subversion: Some Initial Observations on Sŏlcham’s 雪岑 Chodong owi yohae 曹洞五位要解JONGMYUNG KIM: Hyujŏng’s Sŏn’ga kwigam and its Historical Setting and Soteriological StrategiesVLADIMIR TIKHONOV: Manhae Han Yongun’s Attempt at Producing an All-Inclusive Modern Buddhist Compendium – Pulgyo TaejŏnTHERESE SOLLIEN: Sermons by Xū Yún – A Special Transmission Within the ScripturesINDEX

'This book of collected essays is definitely a welcome volume for scholars of Chan studies.(...) Through this diachronic and comparative approach, the work aims to illustrate the great complexity and the multifaceted features of Chan literature in the respective socio-political and socio-religious contexts.(...) the rhetorical approach applied in this volume and the undeniable merits it brings to the field of Chan/Son/Zen should be regarded highly.'Lin Pei-ying, The Eastern Buddhist, 43 (1&2: 2012)'...a welcome edition to Zen Studies.'Jimmy Yu, Religious Studies Review, September 2014.