Chan / Zen
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The many, mostly-exoteric forms of Buddhism found across East Asia.
A painting at Kofukuji-ji Temple depicts the patriarchs of the Chan School. (Mary Harrsch, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Articles (10)
- Audio/Video (11)
- Booklets (6)
- Canonical Works (3)
- Essays (9)
- Excerpts (3)
- Monographs (9)
- Reference Shelf (2)
Articles (10)
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What distinguished Chan were its novel use of language, its development of new narrative forms, and its valorization of the direct and embodied realization of Buddhist awakening. In contrast with the epistemic, hermeneutical and metaphysical concerns that shaped other schools of Chinese Buddhism, Chan’s defining concerns were experiential and relational
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quietly ignoring much in the Buddhist heritage that suggested that birth as a woman indicated that one was less prepared to attain enlightenment than men, Ch’an teachers urged upon their students the point of view that enlightenment was available to everyone at all times; any other view was seen as a hindrance to practice
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simultaneously donning a tolerant posture while claiming the overriding-ness of one’s religion was in fact a distinct phenomenon from what could be called “synthesis,” and has in actuality characterized many syncretistic endeavors in Chinese history.
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Tzu Chi was founded in a small town in eastern Taiwan in 1966 by a lady who has become known by the title and name Master Cheng Yen (b.1937).
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By what Buddhist doctrines, tenets or philosophies did Zen masters develop their unconventional and dramatic teachings and practices?
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one of the most spectacular and popular rituals in Chinese Buddhism, Shuilu fahui […] constructs and represents a unified religious world
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With Ch’an but no Pure Land, nine out of ten people will go astray.
Audio/Video (11)
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This Qi-based worldview—where Qi is this energy matrix that sustains existence—seems to explain why Kim Iryeop is talking about “emptiness” as power that a person can wield: Emptiness is a kind of energy that the creative human being is able to use to manifest value.
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a lot of the practice is figuring out how to get your whole self moving in one direction
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One thought arising, it is hell;
One thought reversed, it is heaven.
Booklets (6)
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the practicer will become like a dead man who, while following others in their normal activities, does not give rise to the least differentiation or attachment
Canonical Works (3)
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To enter the Great Way there are many paths, but essentially they are of two means: by Principle and by Practice.
Essays (9)
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Only a few have heard that “painted rice cakes do not satisfy hunger” and none have really understood what it meant. I’ve asked several of these skin bags about it and everybody was quite certain without even bothering to look into it.
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All beings by nature are Buddha,
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koans are presented along with a poetic introduction and an elaborate commentary. A hua-t’ou however is a stand alone, always short phrase or a part of a koan that can be taken as a subject of meditation and introspection.
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Position your buttocks in the center of the zafu and cross your legs.
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If you have been unable to penetrate through, I guarantee you that when the last day of your life arrives, you will be frantic. Nice to have some things be certain, isn’t it?
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Chan did not originate in the Chinese appropriation of Indian Buddhist texts. Instead, its origins can be traced to the appropriation of Indian Buddhist practices
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Although this is a matter of preparing and serving meals, the tenzo is not just “the cook.”
Monographs (9)
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