Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism by Albert Welter

Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

Albert Welter

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nonfiction history philosophy religion
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The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school began when, in seventh-century China, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and even...

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