This book has three major goals in critically examining the historical and philosophical relation between the writings of D gen and the Zen koan tradition. First, it introduces and evaluates recent Japanese scholarship concerning D gen's two Sh b genz texts, the Japanese (Kana) collection of ninety-two fascicles on Buddhist topics and the Chinese (Mana) collection of three hundred koan cases also known as the Sh b genz Sanbyakusoku. Second, it develops a new methodology for clarifying the development of the koan tradition ...
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This book has three major goals in critically examining the historical and philosophical relation between the writings of D gen and the Zen koan tradition. First, it introduces and evaluates recent Japanese scholarship concerning D gen's two Sh b genz texts, the Japanese (Kana) collection of ninety-two fascicles on Buddhist topics and the Chinese (Mana) collection of three hundred koan cases also known as the Sh b genz Sanbyakusoku. Second, it develops a new methodology for clarifying the development of the koan tradition and the relation between intellectual history and multifarious interpretations of koan cases based on postmodern literary criticism. Third, the book's emphasis on a literary critical methodology challenges the conventional reading of koans stressing the role of psychological impasse culminating in silence.
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