Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark : : The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul's Excerpts on Zen Practice /

Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark : : The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul's Excerpts on Zen Practice / / ed. by Robert E. Buswell.

Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual-that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
TeilnehmendeR:
Buswell, Robert E.
HerausgeberIn:
Buswell, Robert E.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 1 color frontis
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Conventions
  • I. Translator's Introduction
  • Chinul's Excerpts and the Sudden / Gradual Debate in East Asian Buddhism
  • Excerpts as Chinul's Religious Autobiography
  • The Title of the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
  • Zongmi's and Chinul's Treatments of the Four Chan / Sŏn Schools
  • Numinous Awareness and Tracing Back the Radiance
  • Excerpts and the Debates Concerning Sudden vs. Gradual Enlightenment
  • Sudden Awakening / Gradual Cultivation: Chinul's Preferred Soteriology of Moderate Subitism
  • Different Soteriological Schemata
  • Problems with Radical Subitism
  • Radical Subitism and the Kanhwa Technique
  • Contemporary Critiques of Chinul's Moderate Subitism
  • Must Kanhwa Sŏn Entail Radical Subitism?
  • Excerpts' Legacy in Korean Buddhism
  • II. Translation
  • Chinul's Excerpts from the "Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record" with Inserted Personal Notes: An Annotated Translation
  • I. Chinul's Preface
  • II. Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
  • III. Chinul's Exposition
  • Appendix: Complete Table of Contents of Chinul's Excerpts
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Translator

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