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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kevin BuckelewPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231214247ISBN 10: 0231214243 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 19 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAn accessible, informative, and entertaining book on the complex rhetoric employed in Chan Buddhist circles to cast the figure of the Chan master as a full-fledged buddha. Buckelew makes a clear, judicious argument about the centrality of the trope of sovereignty in Chan discourse concerning the spiritual liberation and authority of masters. -- T. Griffith Foulk, editor of <i>Record of the Transmission of Illumination</i>, Volume 1, and author of Volume 2 Professor Buckelew’s brilliant study of masculinity in Chan Buddhism during the Song Dynasty shows how Chan masters cultivating a martially masculine spiritual disposition led to the popularity of their version of Buddhism. -- Miriam Levering, author of <i>Zen: Images, Texts, and Teachings</i> With academic rigor and intellectual creativity, Discerning Buddhas ranks among the best new work in Chan Studies. Buckelew’s research is terrifically original. His lucid translations and thoughtful analyses bring to life both familiar and previously unstudied Chan texts. -- Jason Protass, author of <i>The Poetry Demon: Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way</i> How was it that Chan masters were taken to be buddhas in Song China? In answering this question, Kevin Buckelew shows both the immense sophistication the tradition demanded of its practitioners—as writers, as readers, and as ritual performers—and the complex workings of institutional power in Song Buddhism. -- Paul Copp, author of <i>The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism </i> With academic rigor and intellectual creativity, Discerning Buddhas ranks among the best new work in Chan Studies. Buckelew’s research is terrifically original. His lucid translations and thoughtful analyses bring to life both familiar and previously unstudied Chan texts. -- Jason Protass, author of <i>The Poetry Demon: Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way</i> Author InformationKevin Buckelew is assistant professor of religious studies at Northwestern University. He is coeditor of Buddhist Masculinities (Columbia, 2023). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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