Communities of memory and interpretation
Subtitle: reimagining and reinventing the past in East Asian Buddhism
By: Mario Poceski (ed.).
Series: Hamburg Buddhist studies -- 10; Hamburg Buddhist studies -- 10.
Publisher: Projektverlag; Numata Center for Buddhist Studies
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Bochum
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9783897334250
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Buddhism; History; Case studies; Social aspects
Description: ""The five studies in this volume show unprecedented efforts by each individual contributor to engage in micro-historical research on categories and themes such as lineage, hagiography, and sacred texts in different historical contexts". (Jiang Wu, University of Arizona). "Communities of Memory and Interpretation is a fascinating collection of wellresearched essays that all feature important methodological reflections in addition to detailed and insightful textual analysis or fieldwork scholarship. The volume consistently highlights the theme of how the respective traditions developed a sense of legitimacy and legacy based on canonicity and the various repetitions and reversals of at times disturbing or perplexing paradigms and exegetical strategies to establish and maintain lineal identity and authority." (Steven Heine, Florida International University)"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mario Poceski; title: Traces of the Sanjie (Three Levels) Movement at Baoshan / Wendi Adamek; title: Reconstruction of the Life of a Sixth-Century Monk Misidentified as a Disciple of the Second Chan Patriarch Huike / Jinhua Chen; title: Killing Cats and Other Imaginary Happenings: Milieus and Features of Chan Exegesis / Mario Poceski; title: Identity in a Diagram: Authenticity, Transmission, and Lineage in the Chan/Zen Tradition / Steffen Döll; title: Mapping New Systems of Community Networks: Discursive Identity, Cross-Strait Lineage Construction, and Funerary Sacred Space in Taiwanese Buddhism / Stefania Travagnin.