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Eminent nuns women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China

Title: Eminent nuns [electronic resource] : women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant.
Author: Grant, Beata, 1954-
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009.

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1 online resource (ix, 241 p.)

Uniform Title

Eminent nuns (Online)

Alternative Title

Eminent nuns (Online)

Subject

Buddhist nuns > China > Biography
Monastic and religious life (Zen Buddhism) > China
Zen Buddhism > China > History > 17th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-235) and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.

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