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Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

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 | #2012491 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2006-02-09 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.20 x1.20 x9.40l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 334 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Scientific historical scholarship comes to Zen studies|By calmly|It was bound to happen. Just as studies of the New Testament based on scientific historical scholarship transformed the field of Bible studies, so now it is transforming Zen studies. The same kind of critical scholarship that can be seen in Elaine Pagels' The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans,| ||"Welter's Monks, Rulers, and Literati is a much needed and very readable work that presents a rich and multifaceted picture of the development of Chan and significantly advances our understanding of it. It is a must-read for every scholar interested

The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school began when, in seventh-century China, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. It has reached international popularity, its teachings disseminated across cultures far and wide.
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