Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism

by Youru Wang

  Zongmi 宗密. Chanmen Shizi Chengxi Tu 禪門師資承襲圖 (Chart of the Master-Disciple Succession of the Chan Gate). Translated by Zhang Chunbo 張春波. Taibei: Foguang Wenhua Shiye Youxian Gongsi, 1996.

  Zongmi 宗密. Chanyuan Zhuquanji Duxu 禪源諸詮集都序 (Prolegomenon to the Colllection of Expressions of the Chan Source). Translated by Yan Tao 閻韜. Taibei: Foguang Wenhua Shiye Youxian Gongsi, 1996.

  Zongmi 宗密. Huayan Yuanren Lun 華嚴原人論 (The Huayan Inquiry into the Origin of Man). Translated by Li Jinquan 李錦全. Taibei: Foguang Wenhua Shiye Youxian Gongsi, 1996.

  Philosophical and Doctrinal Studies

  Allen, Barry. “The Virtual and the Vacant—Emptiness and Knowledge in Chan and Daoism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 37, no. 3 (2010): 457–71.

  Benicka, Jana. “(Huayan-Like) Notions of Inseparability (or Unity) of Essence and Its Function (or Principle and Phenomena) in Some Commentaries on ‘Five Positions’ of Chan Master Dongshan Liangjie.” In Reflecting Mirrors: Perspectives on Huayan Buddhism, edited by Imre Hamar, 231–39. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007.

  Blass, Rachel B. “On the Possibility of Self-Transcendence: Philosophical Counseling, Zen, and the Psychological Perspective.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 23, no. 3 (1996): 277–97.

  Bolleter, Ross. Dongshan’s Five Ranks: Keys to Enlightenment. Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2014.

  Buswell, Robert E., Jr. “Ch’an Hermeneutics: A Korean View.” In Buddhist Hermeneutics, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., 231–56. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1988.

  Chan, Wing-Cheuk. “Mou Zongsan on Zen Buddhism.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 5, no. 1 (2006): 73–88.

  Chan, Wing-Shing. “Psychological Attachment, No-Self and Chan Buddhism Mind Therapy.” Contemporary Buddhism 9, no. 2 (2008): 253–64.

  Chan Wing-tsit 陳榮捷. Wang Yangming Yu Chan 王陽明與禪. Taibei: Xuesheng Shuju, 1989.

  Chang, C.-Y. “Ch’an Buddhism: Logical and Illogical.” Philosophy East and West 17 (1967): 37–49.

  Cheng, Chung-ying. “Chan Historiography and Chan Philosophy: A Review Essay on Bernard Faure’s Chan Insights and Oversight.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 23, no. 4 (1996): 489–507.

  Cheng, Chung-ying. “On Zen (Ch’an) Language and Zen Paradoxes.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 1, no. 1 (1973): 77–102.

  Cheng, Chung-ying. “Rejoinder to Michael Levin’s Comments on the Paradoxicality of the Koans.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 3, no. 3 (1976): 291–97.

  Cheng, Chung-ying. “Relativity and Transcendence in the Platform Sūtra of Hui-Neng: On Polarities and Their Philosophical Significances.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 19, no. 1 (1992): 73–80.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li. “Confucianism and Zen (Ch’an) Philosophy of Education.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 12, no. 2 (1985): 197–215.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li. Empty Logic. New York: Philosophical Library, 1984.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li. “Negation, Affirmation and Zen Logic.” International Philosophical Quarterly 26 (1986): 241–51.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li. “Psychology, Ontology, and Zen Soteriology.” Religious Studies 22 (1986): 459–72.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li.“The Roots of Zen Buddhism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 8, no. 4 (1981): 451–78.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li. “Zen and San-lun Madhyamika Thought: Exploring the Theoretical Foundation of Zen Teachings and Practices.” Religious Studies 15 (1979): 343–63.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li. “Zen Morality Within This World.” In Morality Within the Life- and Social World: Interdisciplinary Phenomenology of the Authentic Life in the “Moral Sense,” edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 245–58. Analecta Husserliana, vol. 22. Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1987.

  Cheng, Hsüeh-li. “Zen, Wittgenstein and Neo-orthodox Theology: The Problem of Communicating Truth in Zen Buddhism.” Religious Studies 18 (1982): 133–49.

  Davis, Leesa S. Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.

  DeMartino, Richard. “On Zen Communication.” Communication 8 (1983): 13–28.

  Demiéville, Paul. “The Mirror of the Mind.” In Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought, edited by Peter N. Gregory, 13–40. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1987.

  Dong Qun 董群. Chanzong Lunli 禪宗倫理 (Chan Buddhist Ethics). Hangzhou: Zhejiang Renmin Chubanshe. 2000.

  Faure, Bernard. Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

  Feng, Youlang. “On the Chan Sect.” Chinese Studies in Philosophy 20, no. 2 (1989): 3–38.

  Foulk, T. Griffith. “Sung Controversies Concerning the ‘Separate Transmission’ of Ch’an.” In Buddhism in the Sung, edited by Peter Gregory and Daniel Getz, 220–94. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999.

  Froese, Katrin. “Momentary Encounters in Heidegger and Linji.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41, nos. 3–4 (2014): 470–86.

  Fu, Charles Wei-hsun 傅偉勳. Cong Xifang Zhexue Dao Chanfojiao 從西方哲學到禪佛教 (From Western Philosophy to Chan Buddhism). Beijing: Sanlian Shudian, 1989.

  Fu, Charles Wei-hsun 傅偉勳. “Heidegger and Zen on Being and Nothingness: A Critical Essay in Trans-Metaphysical Dialectics.” In Buddhist and Western Philosophy: A Critical Comparative Study, edited by Nathan Katz, 172–201. New Dehli: Sterling, 1981.

  Fu, Charles Wei-hsun 傅偉勳. “A Philosophic/Hermeneutic Inquiry into the Multidimensional of Hui-neng’s Ch’an Teaching.” In Fo Kuang Shan Report of International Conference on Ch’an Buddhism, 60–68. Kao-hsiung, Taiwan: Fo Kuang Publisher, 1990.

  Fu, Charles Wei-hsun 傅偉勳. “‘Tanjing’ Huineng Dunwu Chanjiao Shenceng Yiyun Shitan 《壇經》慧能頓悟禪教深層意藴試探 (A Tentative Study of the Deep Meanings of Huineng’s Chan Teaching on Sudden Awakening in the Platform Sūtra).” In Cong Chuangzhao De Quanshixue Dao Dasheng Fojiao—Zhexue Yu Zongjiao 4 從創造的詮釋學到大乘佛學－哲學與宗教四集 (From Creative Hermeneutics to Mahayana Buddhism—Philosophy and Religion 4), 209–42. Taibei: Dongda Tushu Gongsi, 1990.

  Garner, Richard T. “The Deconstruction of the Mirror and Other Heresies: Ch’an and Taoism as Abnormal Discourse.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 12, no. 2 (1985): 155–68.

  Gimello, Robert. “Apophatic and Kataphatic Discourse in Mahayana: A Chinese View.” Philosophy East and West 26, no. 2 (1976): 117–36.

  Gimello, Robert. “The Sudden/Gradual Polarity: A Recurrent Theme in Chinese Thought.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 9, no. 4 (1982): 471–86.

  Gómez, Luis O. “Purifying Gold: The Metaphor of Effort and Intuition in Buddhist Thought and Practice.” In Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought, edited by Peter N. Gregory, 67–165. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1987.

  Graham, Archie S. “Art, Language, and Truth in Heidegger’s Radical Zen.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 27, no. 4 (2000): 503–43.

  Gu, Linyu. “Dipolarity in Chan Buddhism and the Whiteheadian God.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32, no. 2 (2005): 211–22.

  Gu, Linyu. “Rethinking the Whiteheadian God and Chan/Zen Buddhism in the Tradition of the Yi Jing.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29, no. 1 (2002): 81–92.

  Gu, Mingdong. “Momentary Return of the Cosmic Unconscious: The Nature of Zen/Chan Enlightenment.” Asian Philosophy 25, no. 4 (2015): 402–17.

  He Guoquan 何國銓. Zhongguo Chanxue Sixiang Yanjiu 中國禪學思想研究 (Studies in the Thought of Chinese Chan). Taibei: Wenjin Chubanshe, 1987.

  Heine, Steven. Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Kōan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press, 1999.

  Heine, Steven. “The Zen Notion of ‘Mind’—Or, Is It ‘No-Mind’: Critical Reflections of Dale Wright’s Philosophical Meditations.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 4, no. 1 (2004): 31–42.

 
; Hershock, Peter D. Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch’an Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

  Hershock, Peter D. “Person as Narration: The Dissolution of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Ch’an Buddhism.” Philosophy East and West 44, no. 4 (1994): 685–710.

  Ho, Chien-hsing. “Interdependence and Nonduality: On the Linguistic Strategy of the Platform Sūtra.” Philosophy East and West 66, no. 4 (2016): 1231–50.

  Hong Xiuping 洪修平 and Wu Yonghe 吳永和. Chanxue Yu Xuanxue 禪學與玄學 (The Study of Chan and the Dark Learning). Hangzhou: Zhejiang Renmin Chubanshe. 1992.

  Hooper, Carl. “Koan Zen and Wittgenstein’s Only Correct Method in Philosophy.” Asian Philosophy 17, no. 3 (2007): 283–92.

  Huang, Lianzhong 黃連忠. Chanzong Gongan Tixiangyong Sixiang Zhi Yanjiu 禅宗公案體相用思想之研究 (A Study of the Thought on Substance, Phenomena and Function in Chan Koan). Taibei: Taiwan Xuesheng Shuju, 2002.

  Hubbard, Jamie, and Paul L. Swanson, eds. Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm over Critical Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.

  Inada, Kenneth. “Zen and Taoism: Common and Uncommon Grounds of Discourse.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 15, no. 1 (1988): 51–65.

  James, Simon P. Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics. Aldershot, Hants, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2004.

  Jan, Yün-hua. “Conflict and Harmony in Ch’an Buddhism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 4, no. 3 (1977): 287–302.

  Jan, Yün-hua. “The Mind as the Buddha Nature: The Concept of the Absolute in Ch’an Buddhism.” Philosophy East and West 31, no. 4 (1981): 467–77.

  Jan, Yün-hua. “Patterns of Chinese Assimilation of Buddhist Thought: A Comparative Study of No-Thought (Wu-nien) in Indian and Chinese Texts.” Journal of Oriental Studies 24, no. 1 (1986): 21–36.

  Jan, Yün-hua. “Tsung-mi’s Questions Regarding the Confucian Absolute.” Philosophy East and West 30, no. 4 (1980): 495–504.

  Jia, Jinhua. “Doctrinal Reformation of the Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism.” Journal of International Association of Buddhist Studies 24, no. 2 (2001): 7–26.

  Jiang, Tao. “The Role of History in Chan/Zen Enlightenment.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 4, no. 1 (2004): 1–14.

  Kaag, John J. “Emptiness, Selflessness, and Transcendence: William James’s Reading of Chinese Buddhism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39, no. 2 (2012): 240–59.

  King-Farlow, John. “On ‘On Zen Language and Zen Paradoxes’: Anglo-Saxon Questions for Chung-Ying Cheng.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 10, no. 3 (1983): 285–98.

  Kiyotaka, Kimura. “Huayan and Chan.” In Reflecting Mirrors: Perspectives on Huayan Buddhism, edited by Imre Hamar, 221–30. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007.

  Knaul, Livia. “Chuang-Tzu and the Chinese Ancestry of Ch’an Buddhism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 13, no. 4 (1986): 411–28.

  Lai, Whalen. “Tao-sheng’s Theory of Sudden Enlightenment Re-examined.” In Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought, edited by Peter N. Gregory, 169–200. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1987.

  Laycock, Steven W. “The Dialectics of Nothingness: A Reexamination of Shen-Hsiu and Hui-Neng.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 24, no. 1 (1997): 19–41.

  Levin, Michael E. “Comments on the Paradoxicality of Zen Koans.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 3, no. 3 (1976): 281–90.

  Liu Guijie 劉貴傑. Chanzong Zhexue 禪宗哲學 (Philosophy of the Chan school). Taibei: Taiwan Shangwu Yinshu Guan, 2013.

  Liu Zeliang 劉澤亮. Huangbo Chan Zhexue Sixiang Yanjiu 黃檗禪哲學思想研究 (Studies in the Philosophical Thought of Huangbo Chan). Wuhan: Hubei Renmin Chubanshe, 1999.

  Magliola, Robert. “Differentialism in Chinese Ch’an and French Deconstruction: Some Test-Cases from the Wu-men-kuan.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 17 (1990): 87–97.

  Magliola, Robert. “French Deconstruction with a Buddhist Difference: More Cases from the Gateless Gate (Wu-men-kuan) and Blue Cliff Record (Pi-yen-lu).” Studies in Language and Literature 3 (1988): 1–25.

  Matsumoto Shirō 松本史朗. Zen shisō no hihanteki Kenkyū 禪思想の批判的研究 (Studies in the Critique of Chan Thought). Tokyo: Daizō shuppan, 1994.

  Nakamura Hajime. “The Non-Logical Character of Zen.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 12, no. 2 (1985): 105–15.

  Nelson, Eric S. “Demystifying Experience: Nothingness and Sacredness in Heidegger and Chan Buddhism.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 17, no. 3 (2012): 65–74.

  Nelson, Eric S. “Language and Emptiness in Chan Buddhism and the Early Heidegger.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 37, no. 3 (2010): 472–92.

  Ng, On-Cho. “An Early Qing Critique of the Philosophy of Mind-Heart (Xin): The Confucian Quest for Doctrinal Purity and the Doxic Role of Chan Buddhism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 26, no. 1 (1999): 89–120.

  Odin, Steve. “Derrida & the Decentered Universe of Chan/Zen Buddhism.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 17, no. 1 (1990): 61–86.

  Odin, Steve. “Illuminations of the Quotidian in Nishida, Chan/Zen Buddhism, and Sino-Japanese Philosophy.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 40, Supplement (2013): 135–45.

  Qu Dacheng 屈大成. Zhongguo Fojiao Sixiang Zhong De Dunjian Guannian 中國佛教思想中的頓漸觀念 (The Ideas of Sudden and Gradual in the Thought of Chinese Buddhism). Taibei: Wenjin Chubanshe, 2000.

  Ren Jiyu. “A Brief Discussion of the Philosophical Thought of Chan Buddhism.” Contemporary Chinese Thought 15, no. 4 (1984): 3–69.

  Scharfstein, Ben-Ami. “Salvation by Paradox: On Zen and Zen-Like Thought.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 3, no. 3 (1976): 209–34.

  Sellmann, James D., and Hans Julius Schneider. “Liberating Language in Linji and Wittgenstein.” Asian Philosophy 13, nos. 2–3 (2003): 103–13.

  Sharf, Robert. “Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chan.” Philosophy East and West 64, no. 4 (2014): 933–64.

  Thompson, John M. “Huineng.” In Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden. http://www.iep.utm.edu/huineng/.

  Tokiwa Gishin. “Bodhidharma’s Wall-Contemplation.” F.A.S. Society Newsletter (1984–1985): 7–10.

  Tokiwa Gishin. “Chan (Zen) View of Suffering.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 5 (1985): 103–29.

  Tominaga, Thomas T. “Ch’an, Taoism, and Wittgenstein.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 10, no. 2 (1983): 127–45.

  Van der Braak, André. Nietzsche and Zen: Self Overcoming Without a Self. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

  Van der Braak, André. “Toward a Philosophy of Chan Enlightenment: Linji’s Anti-Enlightenment Rhetoric.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 37, no. 2 (2010): 231–47.

  Verdú, Alfonso. “The ‘Five Ranks’ Dialectic of the Sōtō-Zen School in the Light of Kuei-feng Tsung-mi’s ‘Arya-shiki’ Scheme.” Monumenta Nipponica 21 (1966): 125–70.

  Visvader, John, and William C. Doub. “The Problem of Desire and Emotions in Taoism and Ch’an.” In Early Ch’an in China and Tibet, edited by Whalen Lai and Lewis R. Lancaster, 281–97. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series, 1983.

  Wang, Youru. “The Chan Deconstruction of Buddha-Nature.” In Buddhisms and Deconstructions, edited by Jin Y. Park, 129–44. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

  Wang, Youru. “Deconstructing Karma and the Aporia of the Ethical in Hongzhou Chan Buddhism.” In Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought, edited by Youru Wang, 81–96. London and New York: Routledge, 2007

  Wang, Youru. “An Inquiry into the Liminology of Language in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism.” International Philosophical Quarterly 37, no. 2 (1997): 161–78.

  Wang, Youru. “Liberating Oneself from the Absolutized Boundary of Language: A Liminological Approach to the Interplay of Speech and Silence in Chan Buddhism.” Philosophy East and West 51, no. 1 (2001): 83–99.

  Wang, Youru. “The Limits of the Critique of ‘the Zen Critique
of Language.’” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 4, no. 1 (December 2004): 43–55.

  Wang, Youru. Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.

  Wang, Youru. “Paradoxicality of Institution, De-Institutionalization and the Counter-Institutional: A Case Study in Classical Chinese Chan Buddhist Thought.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 11, no. 1 (March 2012): 21–37.

  Wang, Youru. “The Pragmatics of ‘Never Tell Too Plainly’: Indirect Communication in Chan Buddhism.” Asian Philosophy 10, no. 1 (2000): 7–31.

  Wong, Ngai Ying. “The Gradual and Sudden Paths of Tibetan and Chan Buddhism: A Pedagogical Perspective.” Journal of Thought 33, no. 2 (1998): 9–23.

  Whitehill, James. “Is There a Zen Ethic?” The Eastern Buddhist, n.s., 20, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 9–33.

  Wright, Dale S. “Emancipation from What? The Concept of Freedom in Classical Ch’an Buddhism.” Asian Philosophy 3, no. 2 (1993), 113–24.

  Wright, Dale S. Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

  Wright, Dale S. “Rethinking Transcendence: The Role of Language in Zen Experience.” Philosophy East and West 42, no. 1 (1992): 113–38.

  Wu, Kuang-ming. “The Mirror in the Sixth Patriarch, Chuantzu, and Plato.” In Fo Kuang Shan Report of International Conference on Ch’an Buddhism, 294–303. Kao-hsiung, Taiwan: Fo Kuang Publisher, 1990.

  Wu Rujun 吳汝鈞. Chan De Cunzai Tiyan Yu Duihua Quanshi, 禪的存在體驗與對話詮釋 (Interpretations of the Existential Experiences and Dialogues of Chan Buddhism). Taibei: Taiwan Xuesheng Shuju, 2010.

  Wu Yansheng 吳言生. Chanzong Sixiang Yuanyuan 禪宗思想淵源 (The Origin of Chan Thought). Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 2001.

  Wu Yi 吳怡. Chan Yu Laozhuang 禪與老莊 (Chan and Lao-Zhuang). Taibei: Sanming Shuju, 1985. [English translation, Ch’an and Lao-Chuang by Wu Yi. San Bruno, CA: Great Learning Publishing Company, 2011].

  Wu Yi 吳怡. The Mind of Chinese Ch’an. Bruno, CA: Great Learning Publishing Company, 1989.