Buddhist Revivalist Movements: Comparing Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement
Preface -- A Comparative Study -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Entering the Mountains and Forests -- Introduction -- Two Revivalist Buddhist Movements -- Preview -- The Symbolic and the Real -- Research -- Technical Issues -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Streams and Sources, Fore...
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2016
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Lopez, Alan Robert: Buddhist Revivalist Movements : Comparing Zen Buddhism and the Thai Forest Movement. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US,c2016. - 9781137543493 |
| Summary: | Preface -- A Comparative Study -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Entering the Mountains and Forests -- Introduction -- Two Revivalist Buddhist Movements -- Preview -- The Symbolic and the Real -- Research -- Technical Issues -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Streams and Sources, Forests and Mountains -- Introduction -- The Genesis Stories -- Forest Monks from Bodhgaya to Colombo -- The Thai Forest Movement: From Sukhothai to Bangkok -- Bodhidharma and His Children -- The Central Contradiction of Buddhism -- Master/Disciple Relationship, Charisma, and Self-Cultivation Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Fish Sauce and Plums: Teaching Tactics -- Introduction -- Thread and Transmission -- Telos and Charisma -- Teaching Contexts/Teaching Moments -- Historical Antecedents -- Ch'an and Forest Teaching Tactics -- Utilization -- Paradoxical Speech -- Indeterminate/Indirect Speech and Language -- Pith Instruction -- Modeling Behavior -- Confrontation -- Contradiction and the Deconstruction of the Sacred -- Compassionate Torment -- Function of the Tactics -- General Characteristics -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Warriors of the Way: Practice and Path Introduction -- Meditation -- Meditation in the Forest -- Ch'an/Zen Meditation -- Walking Meditation -- Meditation and Context: A Comparative View -- Individualism and Collectivism -- Sila and Ascetic Practices -- Everyday Life, Temple Life -- The Structure of the Way -- The Spirit of the Way -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Awakenings -- Introduction -- Enlightenment: One or Many? -- Awakenings from the Forest -- From the Mountains -- Dimensions of Awakening: Phenomenology, Structure, and Function -- The Phenomenology of Awakening -- The Transformation of Structures of Mind The Social Functions of Awakening -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Lives of the Awakened -- Introduction -- Hagiography -- Myth and Passage -- Sample Cases -- The Primary Narrative -- Forest and Mountain Tales -- Pre-Liminal: Birth, Prophecy, and Separation -- The Call and Dispassion -- Departure and Separation -- Road of Trials -- The Liminal -- The Way of Aloneness -- The Immovable Spot and the Great Battle -- Post-Liminal: Return, Integration, and Death -- Anti-Saints, Rascals, and Hags -- Critical Voices -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: Pure Mind: The Fifth Noble Truth Introduction -- Doctrinal Setting -- Pure Mind in the Forest Tradition -- The Nature of Pure Mind -- By Any Name -- Teaching and Scriptural Defenses -- Early Suttas and the Abhidhamma -- Mainstream Theravada Reactions -- Mahayana and Ch'an/Zen on Pure Mind -- The Purity Conundrum -- Shining Mind in Practice -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 8: View, Emptiness, Nowness, and Skillful Means -- Introduction -- View from the Mountain and Forest. -- Ch'an/Zen: No Buddha, No Dharma, No View -- Views from the Forest -- Emptiness: North and South? -- Nowness and the Way The Triumph of Wisdom and Skillful Means |
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| ISBN: | 1137540869 |