Research Catalog

Title

The Koan : texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism / edited by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heine, Steven, 1950-
• Wright, Dale S.

Description

xii, 322 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Koan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The form and function of Koan literature: a historical overview / T. Griffith Foulk -- The antecedents of encounter dialogue in Chinese Chʻan Buddhism / John R. McRae -- Mahākāsyapa's smile: silent transmission and the Kung-an (Kōan) tradition / Albert Welter -- Kung-an Chʻan and the Tsung-men tʻung-yao chi / Ishii Shūdō -- Visions, divisions, revisions: the encounter between iconoclasm and supernaturalism in Kōan cases about Mount Wu-tʻai / Steven Heine -- "Before the empty eon" versus "A dog has no Buddha-nature": Kung-an use in the Tsʻao-tung tradition and Ta-hui's Kung-an introspection Chʻan / Morten Schlütter -- Kōan history: transformative language in Chinese Buddhist thought / Dale S. Wright -- Ikkyū and Kōans / Alexander Kabanoff -- Transmission of Kirigami (secret initiation documents): a Sōtō practice in medieval Japan / Ishikawa Rikizan -- Emerging from nonduality: Kōan practice in the Rinzai tradition since Hakuin / Michel Mohr -- Kōan and Kenshō in the Rinzai Zen curriculum / G. Victor Sōgen Hori.

Call Number

*OLWL 00-10217

ISBN

• 0195117484 (cl )
• 0195117492 (paper)

LCCN

99023112

OCLC

41090651

Title

The Koan : texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism / edited by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Heine, Steven, 1950-

Wright, Dale S.

Research Call Number

*OLWL 00-10217