Becoming Chinese Buddhas: Claims to Authority and the Making of Chan Buddhist Identity.
According to many recent scholars, by the Song dynasty Chan Buddhists had come to identify not primarily as meditation experts—following the literal meaning of chan —but rather as full-fledged buddhas. This article pursues a deeper understanding of how, exactly, Chan Buddhists claimed to be buddhas...
| Publicado en: | T'oung Pao Vol. 105; no. 3/4; pp. 357 - 401 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=139922527&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 139922527 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00825433 C64 jtl: T'oung Pao issn: 00825433 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 2019 vid: 105 iid: 3/4 pid: 639 pub: Brill Academic Publishers artinfo: ui: 139922527 10.1163/15685322-10534P04 ppf: 357 ppct: 44 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 455KB tig: atl: Becoming Chinese Buddhas: Claims to Authority and the Making of Chan Buddhist Identity. aug: au: Buckelew, Kevin affil: Northwestern University su: Song dynasty, China, 960-1279 Buddhas Buddhists Buddhahood Monasticism & religious orders sug: subj: Song dynasty, China, 960-1279 Buddhas Buddhists Buddhahood Monasticism & religious orders keyword: authority Buddhism Chan identity Song dynasty Tang dynasty Zen ab: According to many recent scholars, by the Song dynasty Chan Buddhists had come to identify not primarily as meditation experts—following the literal meaning of chan —but rather as full-fledged buddhas. This article pursues a deeper understanding of how, exactly, Chan Buddhists claimed to be buddhas during the eighth through eleventh centuries, a critical period in the formation of Chan identity. It also addresses the relationship between Chan Buddhists' claims to the personal status of buddhahood, their claims to membership in lineages extending back to the Buddha, and their appeals to doctrines of universal buddhahood. Closely examining Chan Buddhists' claims to be buddhas helps explain the tradition's rise to virtually unrivaled elite status in Song-era Buddhist monasticism, and illuminates the emergence of new genres of Chan Buddhist literature—such as "discourse records" (yulu)—that came to be treated with the respect previously reserved for canonical Buddhist scriptures. Résumé: Selon beaucoup de chercheurs, les bouddhistes Chan en sont venus sous les Song à s'identifier non plus comme de simples spécialistes de la méditation — le sens littéral de chan — mais plutôt comme de vrais bouddhas. Cet article examine en détail comment les bouddhistes Chan ont développé cette affirmation de leur statut de bouddhas entre le huitième et le onzième siècle, une période clé dans la formation de l'identité Chan. Ce faisant, il explore les rapports entre leur revendication individuelle de bouddhéité, leurs affiliations à des lignages remontant jusqu'au Bouddha historique et leur utilisation d'une doctrine de la nature universelle de bouddha. Une lecture serrée des textes où les bouddhistes Chan affirment être des bouddhas permet de comprendre l'essor de cette tradition vers un statut hégémonique dans la direction des monastères bouddhiques sous les Song ainsi que l'émergence de nouveaux genres de littérature bouddhique — tels que les « entretiens » (yulu) — qui en vinrent à jouir d'un respect précédemment donné aux seuls sutras canoniques. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of T'oung Pao is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: T'oung Pao holder: Brill Academic Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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