Zen Buddhism: A History, India & China (Volume 1) - Softcover

Dumoulin, Heinrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941532895 ISBN 13: 9780941532891

Publisher: World Wisdom, 2005

Synopsis

Unparalleled in scope and detail, this classic history of Zen covers all important ideas and developments in the tradition from its beginnings in India through the Sung period in China.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Upon its initial publication in 1988, the English translation of Heinrich Dumoulin's Zen Buddhism: A History, India and China, instantly became an indispensable resource for both specialists and the audience of general readers interested in Zen Buddhism. A number of laudable features ensured the book's immediate success. First, especially in tandem with the second volume in the set treating Zen in Japan, the book's coverage was rewardingly comprehensive. For the first time English readers could trace the history of the school from its earliest conceptual and practical beginnings in India, through its formation and evolution as an innovative religious movement in China, and on to its efflorescence in Japan. The comprehensive nature of Dumoulin's coverage derived from his own intellectual vision, his determination to address all aspects of his chosen subject matter, from beginning to end.

About the Author:

Heinrich Dumoulin was one of the world’s foremost Zen scholars. He was the first director of the Nanzan Institute of Religion and Culture in Japan. He died in 1995 at the age of 90.

John R. McRae is Associate Professor of East Asian Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is also the author of Seeing Through Zen.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Wisdom
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0941532895
• ISBN 13: 9780941532891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440