Steven Heine
Autor de Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice
Sobre El Autor
Steven Heine is professor of religious studies and history and director of Asian studies at Florida International University. His many books include Did Dogen Go to China: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It (2006) and Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies (2013).
Obras de Steven Heine
White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals (2005) 25 copias
Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" (Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature) (2020) 8 copias
From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen : a remarkable century of transmission and transformation (2017) 7 copias
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate (2016) 5 copias
Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods (2011) 4 copias
Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher 2 copias
A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dogen Zen (Asian Thought and Culture) (1989) 2 copias
Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments on Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (2020) 2 copias
Dogen and the Koan Tradition 1 copia
Zen Ritual 1 copia
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Once Western practitioners in these centers began to practice Zen seriously, however, they discovered that zazen - Zen meditation - is a ritualized practice supported by centuries-old ritual practices of East Asia. Although initially in tension with the popular anti-ritual image of ancient Zen masters, interest in Zen ritual has increased along with awareness of its fundamental role in the spirit of Zen. Eventually, Zen practitioners would form the idea of no-mind, or the open and awakened state of mind in which ingrained habits of thinking give way to more receptive, direct forms of experience. This notion provides a perspective from which ritual could gain enormous respect as a vehicle to spiritual awakening, and thus this volume seeks to emphasize the significance of ritual in Zen practice.
Containing 9 articles by prominent scholars about a variety of topics, including Zen rituals kinhin and zazen, this volume covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan. Each chapter covers key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai and Caodon/ Soto schools of China and Japan, describing how Zen rituals mold the lives and characters of its practitioners, shaping them in accordance with the ideal of Zen awakening. This volume is a significant step towards placing these practices in a larger historical and analytical perspective.… (más)