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Volume 31, 2024
Xuedou’s 100 Odes to Old Cases: A Translation and Commentary. By Steven Heine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, ISBN 978-0197676998 (paperback), $29.95.
Reviewed by Dale Wright
Tag Archives: Chan
Review: Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record
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Volume 24, 2017
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate. By Steven Heine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-939776-1 (hardback) 978-0-19-939777-8 (paperback), $105.00 USD (hardback) $36.95 USD (paperback).
Reviewed by Rafal K. Stepien
Review: A Zen Pilgrimage
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Volume 24, 2017
One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage. Directed by Edward A. Burger. COMMONFOLK FILMS, 2016, (DVD), U.S. $349.00.
Reviewed by Dale S. Wright
Review: Films about Chinese Monks
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Volume 22, 2015
Alms & Vows. By E.A. Burger. Commonfolk Films, 2010 & 2013. $150/film.
Reviewed by Nicole Goulet
Review: Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia
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Volume 20, 2013
Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia. By Thomas David DuBois. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, xii+ 259 pages, ISBN 987-1107400405 (paperback), ISBN 978-1107008090 (cloth) $81.00.
Reviewed by Yueh-Mei Lin
Review: Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions
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Volume 20, 2013
Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700. By Jimmy Yu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, xiv + 272 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-984490 (paperback), $29.95.
Reviewed by Nikolas Broy
Review: The Reinvention of Chan in Seventeenth Century China
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Volume 18, 2011
Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China. By Jiang Wu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 457 pages, ISBN: 978‐0195333572 (cloth), US $74.00.
Reviewed by Jack Meng-Tat Chia
Review: Fabrication in Tang Dynasty Chan
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Volume 18, 2011
Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism. By Alan Cole. Berkeley:University of California Press, 2009, xix + 340 pages, ISBN: 8-0520254855 (paperback), US $29.95; ISBN 978-0520254858 (cloth).
Reviewed by Matthew J. Wilhite
Review: Chan in Song-Dynasty China
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Volume 17, 2010
How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China. By Morten Schlütter. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008, 289 pages, ISBN: 978-0-8248-3255-1 (cloth), US$48.00.
Reviewed by Jack Meng-Tat Chia
Review: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism
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Volume 15, 2008
Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism. By Albert Welter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 334 pages, ISBN: 978-0195175219, US $55.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by Charles B. Jones
Ethics in Postmodern Organizations
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Volume 14, 2007
The Ethics of Knowledge and Action in Postmodern Organizations
Michael M.Tophoff
Limmen, The Netherlands
Good Corporate Governance was explicitly formulated in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which became federal law in 2002. It includes ethical guidelines to regulate employee behavior and the interrelations between organizations and their shareholders. While these guidelines are exterior to the person, this paper discusses the construct of an internal beacon for right managerial action, in the Buddhist sense, as well as ways not only to access it mentally but also to extend it into the outside world. Within this perspective, it also presents the ethical teaching of the Chinese Ming philosopher Wang Yangming (1472-1529). Although Wang is considered to be a Neo-Confucian philosopher, in this article he is considered a seminal thinker within the Chan Buddhist tradition Wang’s method of self-cultivation is presented to access the person’s innate knowledge which in itself implies right action.
Zen Social Ethics: Zen as a Social Ethics of Responsiveness
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Volume 13, 2006
Zen as a Social Ethics of Responsiveness
T. P. Kasulis
The Ohio State University
One reason traditional Chan or Zen did not develop a comprehensive social ethics is that it arose in an East Asian milieu with axiologies (Confucian, Daoist, and Shintō) already firmly in place. Since these value orientations did not conflict with basic Buddhist principles, Chan/Zen used its praxes and theories of praxis to supplement and enhance, rather than criticize, those indigenous ethical orientations. When we consider the intercultural relevance of Zen ethics today, however, we must examine how its traditional ethical assumptions interface with its Western conversation partners. For example, it is critical that Chan and Zen stress an ethics of responsiveness rather than (as is generally the case of the modern West) one of responsibility. This paper analyzes special philosophical problems arising when one tries to carry Zen moral values without modification into Western contexts.
Review: The Zen Works of Stonehouse
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Volume 7, 2000
The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit. Translated by Red Pine. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1999, xvi + 231 pages, ISBN: 1–56279–101–X, US $14.95.
Reviewed by Eric Reinders
Review: Ch’an Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity
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Volume 5 1998
Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch’an Buddhism. By Peter D. Hershock. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996, xv + 236 pages, ISBN 0-79142-982-2, $62.50 (cloth), $20.95 (paper).
Reviewed by Steven Heine