Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism by Alan Cole

Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism

Alan Cole

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This book offers a provocative rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). Working from a history-of-religions point of view that asks how and why certain literary tropes were chosen to depict the essence of the Buddhist tradition to Ch...

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