Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 TEXTUALITY: the “dependent origination” of Huang Po
- 2 READING: the practice of insight
- 3 UNDERSTANDING: the context of enlightenment
- 4 LANGUAGE: the sphere of immediacy
- 5 RHETORIC: the instrument of mediation
- 6 HISTORY: the genealogy of mind
- 7 FREEDOM: the practice of constraint
- 8 TRANSCENDENCE: “going beyond” Huang Po
- 9 MIND: the “Great Matter” of Zen
- 10 ENLIGHTENMENT: the awakening of mind
- CONCLUSION: Zen in theory and practice
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 TEXTUALITY: the “dependent origination” of Huang Po
- 2 READING: the practice of insight
- 3 UNDERSTANDING: the context of enlightenment
- 4 LANGUAGE: the sphere of immediacy
- 5 RHETORIC: the instrument of mediation
- 6 HISTORY: the genealogy of mind
- 7 FREEDOM: the practice of constraint
- 8 TRANSCENDENCE: “going beyond” Huang Po
- 9 MIND: the “Great Matter” of Zen
- 10 ENLIGHTENMENT: the awakening of mind
- CONCLUSION: Zen in theory and practice
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998