John R. McRae. Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Genealogy, and Transformation in Chinese Chan Buddhism.(Book Review)

From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Poceski, Mario | Copyright information

John R. McRae. Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Genealogy, and Transformation in Chinese Chan Buddhism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xx, 204 pp. Paperback $19.95, ISBN 0-520-23798-6.

Recent progress in the historical study of the Chan tradition of Chinese Buddhism has undermined the deceptive simplicity of normative genealogical narratives that in the past shaped perceptions of Chan's growth and transmission during the Tang (619-907) through Song (960-1...

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