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Jiang Wu

Leaving for the Rising Sun

Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia

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In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded a new tradition, called Obaku. In this sequel to his 2008 book, Enlightenment in Dispute, Jiang Wu tells the story of the tremendous obstacles faced by Yinyuan, drawing parallels between his experiences and the broader political and cultural context in which he lived.Yinyuan claimed to have inherited the Authentic Transmission of the Linji Sect. After arriving in Japan, he was able to persuade the Shogun to build a new Ming-style monastery for the establishment of his Obaku school. His arrival in Japan coincided wi… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-939314-5
  • EAN: 9780199393145
  • Produktnummer: 17504286
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 24'807 KB

Über den Autor


Jiang Wu is an associate professor in Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. His research interests include Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen Buddhism and the Chinese Buddhist canon, Sino-Japanese Buddhist exchanges, and the application of spatial analysis tools in the study of religion and culture. He is the author of Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China (2008).

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