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- Confucianism,
Taoism, Buddhism-Related Web Pages
- Key
Terms: Buddhism in India, Early China
- 3 Major Phases before
Chan/Zen Buddism:
- 1) Early Indian Buddhism
(Nikaya Buddhism), 2) Two-Fold Truth of Mahayana
Buddhism, 3) Early Philosophical Schools of Chinese
Buddhism.
- Key
Terms: Early Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China
- Notes
on the Platform Sutra of Hui-neng
- The Platform Sutra is
an early Chinese Chan (Zen) scripture and the source
of the Sudden Gradual distinction.
- Notes
on the Sudden/Gradual Distinction
- The distinction between
Sudden and Gradual awakening (enlightenment) began in
China in the eighth century in the Chan (Zen) school.
Sudden awakening was regarded as superior to the
gradual cultivation of enlightenment. Eventually, this
supremacy of sudden awakening became the norm for all
of East Asian Buddhism (China, Japan,
Korea).
- Key
Terms: Dogen's Zen Buddhism
- Notes
on Dogen's "Genjokoan"
- Dogen's Zen Buddhism in
Medieval Japan (Kamakura Period 1185-1333) draws on
the sudden/gradual distinction.
- Key
Terms: Shinran's Pure Land Buddhism (Shin
Buddhism)
- Mark
Unno, "The Nembutsu of No Meaning and the Problem of
Genres,"
The Pure Land: New Series
10-11 (1994), 105-121.
- Mark Unno,
"The Nembutsu as the Path of the Sudden
Teaching," unpublished paper, IASBS
Conference, 1995
- Explains Shinran's view of Sudden Awakening in
Pure Land Buddhism.
- Notes on
Zen Abbess Mugai:
Evidence of a female Zen master during the Kamakura
Period.
- Outline
of Japanese Buddhism from the Sixth through the Twelfth
Centuries (Asuka through Heian Periods)
- Summaries
of Selected Readings
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