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

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...

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Superior document:Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 68
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2005]
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Utgivningsår:2005
Språk:English
Serie:Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 68.
Fysisk beskrivning:1 online resource.
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