Chan Buddhism.(Book review)

From: Southeast Review of Asian Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Chan Buddhism, by Peter D. Hershock. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 173 pages.

Peter Hershock's introduction to Chan Buddhism is the most recent volume in the University of Hawai'i Press' new scholarly series, Dimensions of Asian Spirituality. Such a series is important, as Dimensions' editor Henry Rosemont Jr. explains, for a number of reasons. Chief among them is that, in our increasingly interconnected and intimate world, "tolerance alone cannot contribute substantively to making the world a better--and sustainable--place for human beings to live" (p. vii). ...

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