Inventing Hui-neng, the sixth patriarch : : hagiography and biography in early Ch'an / / by John Jorgensen.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 68
• VerfasserIn: Jorgensen, John, 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2005]; ©2005
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2005
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 68.
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource.

It was through the propaganda of Shen-hui (684-758) that Hui-neng (d. 710) became the also today still towering figure of sixth patriarch of Ch'an/Zen Buddhism, and accepted as the ancestor or founder of all subsequent Ch'an lineages. The first part of the book analyses the creation of the...