Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China 9780824862350

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Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China
 9780824862350

Table of contents :
Contents
A Brief Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter one. Setting the Stage Seventeenth-Century Texts and Contexts
Chapter two. Images of Nuns in the Writings of Seventeenth-Century Monks
Chapter three. The Making of a Woman Chan Master
Chapter four. Qiyuan Xinggang as Abbess, Dharma Teacher, and Religious Exemplar
Chapter five. Passing on the Lamp: The Dharma Successors of Qiyuan Xinggang
Chapter six. From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche
Chapter seven. From Wise Mother to Chan Master: Baochi Jizong
Chapter eight. Reviving the Worlds of Literary Chan: Zukui Jifu
Chapter nine. From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru
A Brief Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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