The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China

by Eric M Greene and Eric M. Greene

Book Overview

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist "meditation masters" (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of "meditation" (chan) in China. Although modern scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824893891
• ISBN13: 9780824893897
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"