Fathering your father
Subtitle: the Zen of fabrication in Tang Buddhism
By: Alan Cole.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780520254848; 9780520254855
Subjects: Zen Buddhism -- China -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Healthy skepticism, and a field theory for the emergence of Chan literature; title: The state of enlightenment: the empire of truth in Zhiyi's legacy and Xinxing's sect of the three levels; title: Owning it: Shaolin monastery's in-house Buddha; title: The future of an illusion: Du Fei hijacks Shaolin's truth-fathers; title: My life as a Buddha: Jingjue's version of the truth-fathers; title: Shenhui's "stop thief" bid to be the seventh son; title: Assessing the hole at the beginning of it all.