Zen Ritual

Studies of Zen Theory in Practice

Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2007
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530467-1 (ISBN)

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This volume covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan and key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai and Caodon/Soto schools. It describes how rituals mold the lives of its practitioners in accordance with the ideal of Zen awakening; a significant step towards placing these practices in historical and analytical perspective.

Steven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History and Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Florida International University. Dale S. Wright is David B. and Mary H. Gamble Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Occidental College. They are the coeditors of The Koan, Zen Canon, and Zen Classics.

Dale S. Wright: Introduction: Rethinking Ritual Practice in Zen Buddhism
1.: T. Griffith Foulk: Ritual in Japanese Zen Buddhism
2.: Mario Poceski: Chan Rituals of the Abbots' Ascending the Dharma Hall to Preach
3.: Albert Welter: Buddhist Rituals for Protecting the Country in Medieval Japan: Myoan Eisai's "Regulations of the Zen School"
4.: Steven Heine: Is Dogen's Eiheiji Temple "Mt. T'ien-t'ung East"? Geo-Ritual Perspectives on the Transition from Chinese Ch'an to Japanese Zen
5.: Taigen Dan Leighton: Zazen as an Enactment Ritual
6.: Paula K. R. Arai: Women and Dogen: Rituals Actualizing Empowerment and Healing
7.: Michel Mohr: Invocation of the Sage: The Ritual to Glorify the Emperor
8.: David E. Riggs: Meditation in Motion: Textual Exegesis in the Creation of Ritual
9.: William M. Bodiford: Dharma Transmission in Theory and Practice
Pinyin-Wade-Giles Conversion Table

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 157 mm
Gewicht	607 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-19-530467-5 / 0195304675
ISBN-13	978-0-19-530467-1 / 9780195304671
Zustand	Neuware