Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia

by Jiang Wu

In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded a new tradition, called Obaku. In this sequel to his 2008 book, Enlightenment in Dispute, Jiang Wu tells the story of the tremendous obstacles faced by Yinyuan, drawing parallels between his experiences and the broader political and cultural context in which he lived.

Yinyuan claimed to have inherited the "Authentic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199393133
• ISBN13: 9780199393138
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"