Bodhidharma Outside Chan Literature: Immortal, Inner Alchemist, and Emissary from the Eternal Realm
In Daozang texts, sectarian hagiographies, and late imperial inner alchemy (neidan 内丹) writings, the life and teachings of Bodhidharma were reconceived in interesting ways, often by drawing upon and magnifying the Chan 禪 Buddhist motifs. From Daozang texts it is apparent that certain parties regarde...
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Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2017]
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-150 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bodhidharma 470-543
/ Dao zang
/ Hagiography
/ Alchemy
/ Immortality (Motif)
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returning to emptiness (guikong 歸空)
B Sects B Shenguang B embryonic breathing (taixi 胎息) B Hagiography B Liu Huayang B Wu Shouyang B Bodhidharma |
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