Readings of the Gateless Barrier - Couverture souple

 
9780231207379: Readings of the Gateless Barrier
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0231207379 ISBN 13 : 9780231207379
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jimmy Yu is Sheng Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhist Studies at the Florida State University. His recent books include Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 (2012) and Reimagining Chan Buddhism: Sheng Yen and the Creation of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan (2021). Known as Guo Gu in Buddhist circles, he is also a Chan teacher and publishes under that name.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231207379
ISBN 13 
9780231207379
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Yu Jimmy
Coordonnées du fabricant
Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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9780231207362: Readings of the Gateless Barrier

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ISBN 10 :  0231207360 ISBN 13 :  9780231207362
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2025
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