num_pages: 464
description: This collection of essays examines the historical basis of the debate over sudden versus gradual approaches to enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism, seeing it as part of a recurrent polarity in Chinese history and thought.
language: English
title: Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought
titlecomplete: Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought (Studies in East Asian Buddhism)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr