The mystique of transmission
Subtitle: on an early Chan history and its contexts
By: Wendi L. Adamek.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780231136648
Description: "The Mystique of Transmissions is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the eighth-century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan."--Jacket.