The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessment of Chan lineages, teaching, fundraising practices, and social organization. Synthesizing twenty years of scholarship, "Seeing Through Zen" offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices and religious history. Writing in a lucid and engaging style, McRae traces the emergence of this Chinese spiritual tradition and its early figureheads, Bodhidharma and the 'sixth patriarch' Huineng, through the development of Zen dialogue and koans. In addition to constructing a central narrative for the doctrinal and social evolution of the school, "Seeing Through Zen" examines the religious dynamics behind Chan's use of iconoclastic stories and myths of patriarchal succession. McRae argues that Chinese Chan is fundamentally genealogical, both in its self-understanding as a school of Buddhism and in the very design of its practices of spiritual cultivation. Furthermore, by forgoing the standard idealization of Zen spontaneity, we can gain new insight into the religious vitality of the school as it came to dominate the Chinese religious scene, providing a model for all of East Asia - and the modern world. Ultimately, this book aims to change how we think about Chinese Chan by providing new ways of looking at the tradition.
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讀後感
如果说禅宗给佛教带来的是叠层式的文学构架和历史建造，那么禅的研究则站在了要将其建构过程解构的对立面。开篇，Mcrae就列举了他创造的四条定律来指导他的解构研究： McRae’s Rules of Zen Studies: 1. It’s not true, and therefore it’s more important. 2. Lineage ass...
評分如果说禅宗给佛教带来的是叠层式的文学构架和历史建造，那么禅的研究则站在了要将其建构过程解构的对立面。开篇，Mcrae就列举了他创造的四条定律来指导他的解构研究： McRae’s Rules of Zen Studies: 1. It’s not true, and therefore it’s more important. 2. Lineage ass...
評分如果说禅宗给佛教带来的是叠层式的文学构架和历史建造，那么禅的研究则站在了要将其建构过程解构的对立面。开篇，Mcrae就列举了他创造的四条定律来指导他的解构研究： McRae’s Rules of Zen Studies: 1. It’s not true, and therefore it’s more important. 2. Lineage ass...
評分如果说禅宗给佛教带来的是叠层式的文学构架和历史建造，那么禅的研究则站在了要将其建构过程解构的对立面。开篇，Mcrae就列举了他创造的四条定律来指导他的解构研究： McRae’s Rules of Zen Studies: 1. It’s not true, and therefore it’s more important. 2. Lineage ass...
評分如果说禅宗给佛教带来的是叠层式的文学构架和历史建造，那么禅的研究则站在了要将其建构过程解构的对立面。开篇，Mcrae就列举了他创造的四条定律来指导他的解构研究： McRae’s Rules of Zen Studies: 1. It’s not true, and therefore it’s more important. 2. Lineage ass...
用戶評價
一本活潑易讀的early禪宗史，從Boddhidharma 到宋大慧宗杲，McRae解釋瞭禪宗“曆史”的堆積形成。有時候重要的並不是事實是如何，而是人們究竟是基於怎樣的需要在怎樣的語境下再創造瞭曆史。
评分資歷越豐富呢，就越敢放開講，越拿腔拿調。吸睛觀點啟發確實多，但上來就摔齣“我的規定”n條之類，就差打讀者小屁屁瞭。一般方法問題搞得太高調，會導緻終究無法落實在每個細處，比如一開始批判不能以“英雄人物”來把握歷史，分析中還是用唐宋祖師等人物。宋代部分點齣的大方嚮是準的，但是有些浮，顯然研究還太初步
评分一本活潑易讀的early禪宗史，從Boddhidharma 到宋大慧宗杲，McRae解釋瞭禪宗“曆史”的堆積形成。有時候重要的並不是事實是如何，而是人們究竟是基於怎樣的需要在怎樣的語境下再創造瞭曆史。
评分McRae's really funny.
评分這個作者總是一種很自負的口氣，可能是看不慣西方“zen”泛濫現象，很有趣。感覺這麼具有鮮活形象的作者竟然已經去世好幾年，有點感慨。
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