Eminent nuns
Subtitle: women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China
By: Beata Grant.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824832025
Subjects: Buddhist nuns -- China -- Biography.; Monastic and religious life (Zen Buddhism) -- China.; Zen Buddhism -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts; title: Images of nuns in the discourse records of male Chan masters; title: The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang; title: Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar; title: Passing on the lamp: the dharma-successors of Qiyuan Xinggang; title: From Hengshan to Hangzhou: Chan master Jizong Xingche; title: From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong; title: Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu; title: From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.