Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan And The Authenticity Crisis In Early Modern East Asia - Softcover

Wu, Jiang

 
9780199393138: Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan And The Authenticity Crisis In Early Modern East Asia
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ISBN 10: 0199393133 ISBN 13: 9780199393138
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Tells the story of Chinese Zen master Yinyuan's journey from China to Japan amid the turmoil of the Manchu conquest of China.

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About the Author

Jiang Wu is an associate professor in Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. His research interests include Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen Buddhism and the Chinese Buddhist canon, Sino-Japanese Buddhist exchanges, and the application of spatial analysis tools in the study of religion and culture. His first book Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199393133
ISBN 13 
9780199393138
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
380

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