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Myoan Eisai and Conceptions of Zen Morality : = The Role of Eisai's Chinese Sources in the Formation of Japanese Zen Precept Discourse.

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Title/Author:	Myoan Eisai and Conceptions of Zen Morality :/
Reminder of title:	The Role of Eisai's Chinese Sources in the Formation of Japanese Zen Precept Discourse.
Author:	Walsh, Dermott Joseph.
Description:	1 online resource (222 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-01A(E).
Subject:	Asian studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438312722

Myoan Eisai and Conceptions of Zen Morality : = The Role of Eisai's Chinese Sources in the Formation of Japanese Zen Precept Discourse.
Walsh, Dermott Joseph.

Myoan Eisai and Conceptions of Zen Morality :The Role of Eisai's Chinese Sources in the Formation of Japanese Zen Precept Discourse. - 1 online resource (222 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

The focus of this dissertation is Myoan Eisai, considered by scholarship as the founder of the Rinzai Zen lineage in Japan. This work aims to answer two interrelated questions: what is Eisai's Zen? and how does Eisai's Zen relate to other schools of Buddhism? Through an analysis of Eisai's texts composed following his return from his second trip to China in 1187, I illustrate the link between Eisai's understanding of Zen and the practice of morality in Buddhism; moreover this dissertation shows clearly that, for Eisai, Zen is compatible with both Tendai and the study of the precepts. This work analyzes the Eisai's use of doctrinal debates found in Chinese sources to argue for the introduction of Zen to Japan. Through this analysis, we see how Eisai views Zen, based on his experience in Chinese monasteries, not as a distinct group of practitioners rebelling against traditional forms of practice, but rather as a return to fundamental Buddhist positions concerning the importance of morality and its relationship to meditative practices.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438312722Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179577
Asian studies.
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554714
Electronic books.

Myoan Eisai and Conceptions of Zen Morality : = The Role of Eisai's Chinese Sources in the Formation of Japanese Zen Precept Discourse.
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