Separate teaching and separate transmission: Kokan Shiren's Zen polemics

This article investigates the thought of Kokan Shiren (1278-1346), a representative of the Five Mountains Zen institution. It argues that Kokan's understanding of Zen developed in the context of a polemic against and consequently under the influence of the classical schools of Japanese Buddhism...

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Main Author: Licha, Stephan 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Nanzan Institute 2018
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-124
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kokan 1278-1346 / Lankāvatāra-sūtra / Zen Buddhism / Polemics / Tiantai Buddhism / Classification / History 1100-1400
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
TE Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Concept of mind
B Zen Buddhism
B Religious Studies
B Dharma
B Sectarianism
B Polemics
B Instantiation
B Bodhisattva
B Orthodoxy
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