History of Buddhism by Loiterer, Boundless Wisdom

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  1. Aug 15

    280 CHAN SCHOOL, BLUE CLIFF RECORD VS. CHAN MUST VANQUISH LIFE AND DEATH

    The Blue Cliff Record is a specialized Buddhist text, so we will not go into excessive detail here. In short, it is a lecture outline that dissects Xuedou Chongxian’s one hundred praising verses or cases on Chan Puzzle (Public case), compiled in ten scrolls.

  2. Aug 15

    279 CHAN SCHOOL, SOUTHWARD MIGRATION OF THE GENTRY – YUANWU KEQINQIN'S LOVE POEM

    Before the Song Dynasty, China's national mindset was very open. It became inward looking by the Song Dynasty, and this crucial shift occurred during the transition from the Northern to the Southern Song.

  3. Aug 15

    278 CHAN SCHOOL, DREAMING BACK TO A SILENT PERSON THROUGH THE DAWN'S DRIZZLING RAIN - TEXTUAL CHAN

    Qingling Huihong, the third generation master of the Linji School's Huanglong faction, was the most discerning Chan School historian of the Northern Song Dynasty, bar none.

  4. Aug 15

    277 CHAN SCHOOL, Recorded in the Grove - THE GROWTH HISTORY OF THE HUANGLONG SCHOOL

    At the end of the last lecture, we discussed the "Yellow Dragon's Three Barriers" of the Huanglong School, a "three and a half sentence" theoretical progression. Its earliest origin is actually traced back to Baizhang Huaihai's "Initial, Middle, Final, Good" - three sentences connected, "Initial, Middle, Final" progressing, with "Good" as the final point, indicating realization in the manner of "not Dharma, not non Dharma." This method has a source: it derives from the Tiantai School's "Trinity" theory, which itself was transformed from Mahayana Madhyamaka's Mulamadhyamakakarika - the "Three Affirmation Verses."

  5. Aug 15

    276 CHAN SCHOOL, SHISHUANG'S SUCCESSOR, HUNGLONG'S THREE BARRIERS - LIVING PHRASE CHAN

    Shishuang Chuyuan marks two significant points in Buddhist history.

  6. Aug 15

    275 CHAN SCHOOL, THREE LITERARY FORMS OF BUDDHIST LITERATURE - DAIBIE, SONGGU, NIANGU

    The "Chan Revival Movement" that originated in the Song Dynasty integrated all Buddhist philosophical, doctrinal, and theoretical concepts into the great river of Chan literature.

  7. Aug 15

    274 CHAN SCHOOL, THE CHAN REVIVAL MOVEMENT - FENYANG SHANZHAO

    Throughout the Song Dynasty, active Chan schools were essentially only two... though three existed - Linjin, Yunmen, Caodong - only Linjin and Yunmen were truly active.

  8. Aug 15

    273 CHAN SCHOOL, VIEWING DEATH AS RETURNING HOME - THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD IN BUDDHIST LITERATURE

    During the Song Dynasty, there were five major developments: science and technology, commerce, culture, administration, and power centralization. The last one - the highly developed centralized autocratic system - directly affected the literati class, but also indirectly changed the face of Chan.

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