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Zongmi on Chan

Broughton, Jeffrey Lyle·2009·Columbia University Press eBooks
DOI 10.7312/brou14392
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Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning ( gakumon ) in Buddhism and personal experience ( taiken ) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the first time in English, Jeffrey Broughton presents an annotated translation of Zongmi's magnum opus, the Chan Prolegomenon , along with translations of his Chan Letter and Chan Notes . The Chan Prolegomenon persuasively argues that Chan "axiom realizations" are identical to the teachings embedded in canonical word and that one who transmits Chan must use the sutras and treatises as a standard. Japanese Rinzai Zen has, since the Edo period, marginalized the sutra-based Chan of the Chan Prolegomenon and its successor text, the Mind Mirror ( Zongjinglu ) of Yongming Yanshou (904-976). This book contains the first in-depth treatment in English of the neglected Mind Mirror , positioning it as a restatement of Zongmi's work for a Song dynasty audience. The ideas and models of the Chan Prolegomenon , often disseminated in East Asia through the conduit of the Mind Mirror , were highly influential in the Chan traditions of Song and Ming China, Korea from the late Koryo onward, and Kamakura-Muromachi Japan. In addition, Tangut-language translations of Zongmi's Chan Prolegomenon and Chan Letter constitute the very basis of the Chan tradition of the state of Xixia. As Broughton shows, the sutra-based Chan of Zongmi and Yanshou was much mo…

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  • There is at least one indication that, as the Chan tradition sought to define itself as a broad movement in the ninth century, it tried to incorporate the earlier poet Wang Fanzhi.

    “there is at least one indication that, as the Chan tradition sought to define itself as a broad movement in the ninth century, it did try to incorporate at least one earlier poet, Wang Fanzhi 王梵志 (birth and death dates unknown) (Broughton, 2009: 177).”

    From Zen and the “Image” in Tang Poetry (2020) · cites this paper as Broughton, 2009: 177

  • As Jeffrey L. Broughton has observed, Zongmi's example for this negative scenario is the Buddha's disciple Ānanda, who memorized every word the Buddha spoke throughout his long preaching career but in the end, at the Buddha's complete nirvana, had not yet achieved awakening.

    “As Jeffrey L. Broughton has observed, “Zongmi's example for this negative scenario is the Buddha's disciple Ānanda … who memorized every word the Buddha spoke throughout his long preaching career but in the end, at the Buddha's complete nirvana, had not yet achieved awakening” (2009: 65).”

    From Possessing Enlightenment: Sorcery, Selfhood, and Tragic Responsibility in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryphon (2023) · cites this paper as Broughton 2009

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Authors
Broughton, J. L.
Corresponding author
Broughton, Jeffrey Lyle
Venue
Columbia University Press eBooks
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
2009-12-31
DOI
10.7312/brou14392
OpenAlex
W560824470
Cited by
27
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0
Citations by year
2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
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7.77
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book
Language
en
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closed
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Columbia University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Chinese history and philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
Keywords
Zen Buddhism, Yongming Yanshou, Rinzai Zen, Japanese Zen Buddhism

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