Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark: The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul’s Excerpts on Zen Practice 9780824867423
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual—that i
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English Pages 344 Year 2016
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Conventions
I. Translator’s Introduction
Chinul’s Excerpts and the Sudden / Gradual Debate in East Asian Buddhism
Excerpts as Chinul’s Religious Autobiography
The Title of the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
Zongmi’s and Chinul’s Treatments of the Four Chan / Sŏn Schools
Numinous Awareness and Tracing Back the Radiance
Excerpts and the Debates Concerning Sudden vs. Gradual Enlightenment
Sudden Awakening / Gradual Cultivation: Chinul’s Preferred Soteriology of Moderate Subitism
Different Soteriological Schemata
Problems with Radical Subitism
Radical Subitism and the Kanhwa Technique
Contemporary Critiques of Chinul’s Moderate Subitism
Must Kanhwa Sŏn Entail Radical Subitism?
Excerpts’ Legacy in Korean Buddhism
II. Translation
Chinul’s Excerpts from the “Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record” with Inserted Personal Notes: An Annotated Translation
I. Chinul’s Preface
II. Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
III. Chinul’s Exposition
Appendix: Complete Table of Contents of Chinul’s Excerpts
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Translator
