The Theory and Practice of Zen Buddhism: A Festschrift in Honor of Steven Heine (Hardcover)

Part I: Zen Roots.- Chapter 1. Searching for the histrorical bodhidharma in goblet words (John A. Tucker).- Chapter 2. Chan and the routinazation of charisma in chinese buddhism (Mario Poceski).-Chapter 3. The platform s?tra and its role in chinese zen buddhism (Morten Schlutter).- Chapter 4. Eloquence and silence: how d?gen’s dharma match with vimalak?rti turns out (Dale S. Wright).-Chapter 5. A tale of two prefaces: the role of yang yi in the creation of song chan identity (Albert Welter).- Chapter 6. The relationship of d?gen’s vision of nature with his practice of devotion and faith (Taigen Dan Leighton).- Chapter 7. Theorizing the chan-confician encounter in late imperial china: the chinese cultural habitus and the buddhist doxa (On-Cho Ng).- Part II: Zen Branches.- Chapter 8. The zen explosion in america: from before the pre-boomers to after the zoomers (Charles S. Prebish).- Chapter 9. The role of zazen in D. T. Suzuki’s Zen (Richard M. Jaffe).- Chapter 10. Zen and the art of resistance (James Mark Shields).- Chapter 11. S?t? zen women’s wisdom in practice (Paula K. R. Arai).- Chapter 12. “Can you hear the great sound of the holy footsteps?”A case study of the 650th death anniversary of Gasan J?seki (Michaela Mross).- Chapter 13. To tame an ox or to catch a fish: a zen reading of the old man and the sea (Pamela D. Winfield).- Chapter 14. Steven heine on the religio-aestthetic dimension of zen buddhism (Steven Odin).- Chapter 15. Existential dimesions of zen buiddhism: steven heine on d?gen, heidigger, and bob dylan (Jin Y. Park).