The Teachings of Master Wuzhu - Wendi Adamek

The Teachings of Master Wuzhu

Zen and Religion of No-Religion

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2011
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-15022-4 (ISBN)
124,70 inkl. MwSt
The Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Chan/Zen Buddhist text of the eighth century, rediscovered in 1900 at the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang. The only remaining artifact of the Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, the text provides a fascinating sectarian history of Chinese Buddhism intended to showcase the iconoclastic teachings of Bao Tang founder Chan Master Wuzhu (714-774). Wendi Adamek not only brings Master Wuzhu's experimental community to life but also situates his paradigm-shifting teachings within the history of Buddhist thought. Having published the first translation of the Lidai fabao ji in a Western language, she revises and presents it here for wide readership. Written by disciples of Master Wuzhu, the Lidai fabao ji is one of the earliest attempts to implement a "religion of no-religion," doing away with ritual and devotionalism in favor of "formless practice." Master Wuzhu also challenged the distinctions between lay and ordained worshippers and male and female practitioners.
The Lidai fabao ji captures his radical teachings through his reinterpretation of the Chinese practices of merit, repentance, precepts, and Dharma transmission. These aspects of traditional Buddhism continue to be topics of debate in contemporary practice groups, making the Lidai fabao ji a vital document of the struggles, compromises, and insights of an earlier era. Adamek's volume opens with a vivid introduction animating Master Wuzhu's cultural environment and comparing his teachings to other Buddhist and historical sources.

Wendi L. Adamek teaches East Asian Buddhism at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include the Tang dynasty, Buddhist practice, environmental issues, and network theory. She is the author of The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and Its Contexts, which won the American Academy of Religion Award of Excellence in Textual Studies. Her current projects concern a seventh-century Buddhist community at Baoshan in Henan, and the relationship between religions and environmental transformation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.9.2011
Reihe/Serie Translations from the Asian Classics
Zusatzinfo 0 halftones
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 0-231-15022-9 / 0231150229
ISBN-13 978-0-231-15022-4 / 9780231150224
Zustand Neuware
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