{"product_id":"reimagining-chan-buddhism-1","title":"Reimagining Chan Buddhism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first socio-intellectual history of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan (Zen), a new lineage of Buddhism founded by the late Chinese Buddhist cleric, Sheng Yen (1931–2009)—arguably one of the most influential Chan masters in contemporary times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book challenges the received academic and popular image of Chan Buddhism as a meditation school that bypasses scriptural learning. Using Sheng Yen’s doctrinal classification (Chn. \u003ci\u003epanjiao\u003c\/i\u003e) chart as an example, the book shows Sheng Yen’s Chan as a synthesis of both Indian and Chinese premodern forms of Buddhism, and as the \u003ci\u003esummum bonum\u003c\/i\u003e of Han transmission of Chinese Buddhism (Chn. \u003ci\u003eHanchuan fojiao\u003c\/i\u003e). The book demonstrates how Sheng Yen’s presentation of Chan was intimately related to the volatile social and political realities of his life—the Communist takeover of China and the subsequent industrial boom that impacted Taiwanese society. In short, this book presents a historically and culturally embodied approach to the formation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Drawing on the works of postcolonial theories that integrate the role of the researcher into the research, the book also offers a more integrated approach between emic and etic, insider and outsider perspectives to research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvancing the field of Buddhist studies, the book will be of interest to scholars of Buddhism in the modern period, twentieth-century religious history of China and Taiwan, Chan\/Zen studies, World Religions, Asian civilizations, and Modern Biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256620863832,"sku":"9781032048444","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032048444.jpg?v=1768380349","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/reimagining-chan-buddhism-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}