Zen Classics Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism Unknown - 2005
by Editor-Steven Heine; Editor-Dale S. Wright
From the publisher
This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume collected original essays on koan collections, recorded sayings of individual masters, histories of major schools, and compilations of monastic regulations. The second focuses on the early history
of Zen in China, providing overview assessments of many of the most important canonical texts that set the Zen tradition in motion throughout East Asia. Zen Classics will follow that historical movement, focusing primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought this Buddhist movement to
fruition. Although enormously diverse in style and structure all of the texts and genres of texts considered here were fundamental to the unfolding of Zen in East Asia. The range of genres reveals the varieties of Zen practice, from rules of daily practice to sermons and meditation manuals. The all
new essays in this volume will be contributed by an international team of distinguished scholars of Buddhism. It is aimed at broad audience including college students, Zen practitioners, and scholars of East Asian history, religion, and culture, as well as specialists in Buddhist history.
Details
- Title Zen Classics Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism
- Author Editor-Steven Heine; Editor-Dale S. Wright
- Binding unknown
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford ; New York
- Date November 3, 2005
- ISBN 9780195175257
About the author
Steven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History and Director of Asian Studies at Florida International University. He has published extensively on Buddhism, including Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters (OUP, 2002), and Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient
TraditionOUP, 2003), coedited with Charles S. Prebish. Dale S. Wright is David B. and Mary H. Gamble Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Occidental College. He is the coeditor, with Steven Heine, of The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (OUP, 2000) and The Zen Canon:
Understanding the Classic Texts (OUP, 2004). Dr. Heine was recently awarded the Kauffman Professorship in Entrepreneurship Studies at the Florida International University Business School.
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