Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism (Philip E. Lilenthal Books in Asian Studies)

by Alan Cole (Author), Alan Cole (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $33.80

  Offers a rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). This work focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha.