22 Citations
Master Questions, Student Questions, and Genuine Questions: A Performative Analysis of Questions in Chan Encounter Dialogues
- PsychologyReligions
- 2020
I want to know whether Chan masters and students depicted in classical Chan transmission literature can be interpreted as asking open (or what I will call “genuine”) questions. My task is significant…
Inventing Chinese Buddhas: Identity, Authority, and Liberation in Song-Dynasty Chan Buddhism
- Education
- 2018
Inventing Chinese Buddhas: Identity, Authority, and Liberation in Song-Dynasty Chan Buddhism Kevin Buckelew This dissertation explores how Chan Buddhists made the unprecedented claim to a level of…
The Rule of Marginality : Hypothesizing the Transmission of the Mengshan Rite for Feeding the Hungry Ghosts in Late Imperial China
- History
- 2018
*During the research of this paper, I have received generous help from Robert Gimello, Leonard van der Kuijp, Robert Hymes, Ruth Dunnell, Charles Orzech, Li Ruohong, Liu Guowei, and Jin Hongmei.…
Zen, Mathematics, and Rāmānujan: Uncommon Links
- Philosophy
- 2016
For centuries, religion has been the main impulse for moral and humanistic advancement, and ever since the rise of the Scientific Revolution (from 1543, the year Copernicus published De revolutioni…
Portrayals of Chan Buddhism in the Literature of Internal Alchemy
- Art
- 2015
Abstract:Chan 禪 Buddhism’s rise to popularity in the Song dynasty produced far-reaching effects within Chinese religious culture. This paper examines the ways in which doctrinal, literary, and…
Kaḷari and Vaittiyacālai: Medicine and Martial Arts Intertwined
- Medicine
- 2012
The very combination of medically and martially relevant aspects of varmam is described as not only complementary, but as the most decisive feature ofvarmakkalai.