The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism by Bernard Faure

The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism

Bernard Faure

304 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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The book is in three parts. The first part treats the biography and thought of the "founder" of the Northern school, Shenxiu, the nature of his followers, and his affinities for Buddhistic scholasticism. The second part studies the way in which th...

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