명상도서관

명상도서관

The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation 자세히보기
  • 자료유형단행본
  • 저자명Eric M. Greene
  • 학회/출판사/기관명University of Hawaii Press
  • 출판년도2021
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기
  • 발행사항
  • ISBN/ISSN9780824886868
  • 소개/요약In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long been familiar with the approaches to meditation of the Chan (Zen) School that later became so popular throughout East Asia, these earlier and in some ways more pervasive forms of practice have long been overlooked or ignored. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which these approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing).