How Zen became Zen
Subtitle: the dispute over enlightenment and the formation of Chan Buddhism in Song- dynasty China
By: Morten Schlütter.
Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism -- 22
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780824832551
Subjects: Zen Buddhism -- China -- History
Notes: "A Kuroda Institute Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chan Buddhism in the Song: some background; title: The Chan school and the Song state; title: Procreation and patronage in the Song Chan school; title: A new Chan tradition: the reinvention of the Caodong lineage in the Song; title: A dog has no Buddha-nature: Kanhua Chan and Dahui Zonggao's attacks on silent illumination; title: The Caodong tradition as the target of attacks by the Linji tradition; title: Silent illumination and the Caodong tradition.