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Book Synopsis Zen in Medieval Vietnam by : Cuong Tu Nguyen
Download or read book Zen in Medieval Vietnam written by Cuong Tu Nguyen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study and translation of a 14th-century text on the transmission of the Zen lineages in Vietnam. The author argues that there has never been a Zen tradition in Vietnam, but that Zen manifests itself in a philosophical attitude and artistic sentiments throughout religious and cultural life.
Book Synopsis Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam by : Thich Thien-an
Download or read book Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam written by Thich Thien-an and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1992-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam provides, for Western readers, a much needed introduction to this important religion—its history, practices, concepts, and role in the lives of the people, the nation, and Vietnamese culture. Recently, Vietnam has aroused the attention of the Western world and made the task of understanding Vietnamese Buddhism more imperative. This Buddhist book gives a comprehensive account of Buddhism in Vietnam and the various Zen Buddhist schools in Vietnam and their relation to Buddhism in other Asian countries. Students of Vietnamese culture and Zen Buddhism will find this penetrating and enlightening study of incalculable value.
Download or read book Zen Conquests written by Alexander Soucy and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tail end of the twentieth century, a monk transformed a small village temple on the outskirts of Hanoi into a monastery and meditation center called Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc—a place where monastics and lay Buddhists could learn and practice Zen meditation. In time the original temple was replaced by numerous large buildings to accommodate meditation sessions, youth events, weddings, classes, and a variety of other activities designed to keep practitioners engaged. Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc’s approach to Buddhism as a life commitment for all ages and genders has been very successful, attracting more than a thousand Buddhists to its weekly services. It joined Thiền phái Trúc Lâm, a much larger organization started by Thích Thanh Từ in southern Vietnam that has expanded to northern Vietnam and internationally. In Zen Conquests, Alexander Soucy presents not only the first ethnography of Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc and its followers, but also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam. Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc’s Zen tradition purports to be a continuation of the only Zen Buddhist sect founded in Vietnam: the fourteenth-century Trúc Lâm Zen School. However, the movement can also be seen as the product of Buddhism’s globalization, born from the D. T. Suzuki-inspired interest in Zen in South Vietnam during the American War. Despite its claims to be authentically Vietnamese Zen, it more closely resembles Modernist versions of Buddhism practiced by Western converts in North America than anything Vietnamese. Soucy maintains that it is only by looking at the processes of globalization that Vietnamese Buddhism (both in the context of Vietnam but also in the Vietnamese diaspora) can be properly understood. He argues convincingly for acknowledging the continued influence of transnational, pan-Asian, and global flows of migration and communication on the development of multiple forms of Buddhism worldwide.
Book Synopsis The Way of Zen in Vietnam by : Ananda Viet Foundation
Download or read book The Way of Zen in Vietnam written by Ananda Viet Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the way of Zen in Vietnam? Is there only one answer, or many? Should the answer be a wordless gesture? Who has the authority to answer those questions? This book is written to give a glimpse of the way of Zen in Vietnam. Personally, I am nobody. Though I have studied and practiced Zen for nearly half a century, I feel I will always remain a student of Zen. Readers can find many of the sentences here in some books of Buddhism in Vietnam; some are my memories of the things I've read or heard. The comments and the English translation in this book are mine; otherwise will be indicated. Three of those I am indebted to are Zen Master Thích Thanh Từ, Prof. Lê Mạnh Thát, and researcher Trần Đình Sơn. In this book, I use many poems that were translated into modern Vietnamese language by the three scholars above. The ancient Zen masters in Vietnam wrote poems in the Chinese and Nôm languages. At times, I paraphrase poems into simple prose to make them easier to understand. This book is not for profit. You are free to copy or reproduce noncommercially. May all beings be healthy and happy; may all beings be free. Đường lối Thiền Tông tại Việt Nam là gì? Có một câu trả lời, hay nhiều hơn? Hay là, câu trả lời nên là một cử chỉ không lời? Ai có thẩm quyền trả lời những câu hỏi đó? Sách này được viết để cho một cái nhìn về Thiền Tông tại Việt Nam. Bản thân tôi không là gì cả. Dù tôi học và thực tập Thiền trong gần nửa thế kỷ, tôi cảm thấy mình vẫn là một Thiền sinh vĩnh viễn. Độc giả có thể thấy nhiều câu nơi đây trong các sách về Phật Giáo Việt Nam; một số là ký ức tôi nhớ về những gì tôi đã đọc hay nghe. Các ghi nhận và phần Anh dịch trong sách là của tác giả, trường hợp khác sẽ kể rõ tên người ghi nhận. Ba tác giả tôi mang ơn là Thiền sư Thích Thanh Từ, Giáo sư Lê Mạnh Thát và nhà nghiên cứu Trần Đình Sơn; trong sách này, tôi sử dụng nhiều bài thơ được ba học giả này dịch sang tiếng Việt hiện nay. Các Thiền sư tại Việt Nam nhiều thế kỷ trước đã làm thơ bằng tiếng Hán và tiếng Nôm. Có những lúc, tôi chuyển các bài thơ sang văn xuôi đơn giản để dễ hiểu hơn. Sách này viết không vì lợi nhuận. Ai cũng có quyền tự do sao chép hay phổ biến lại, một cách phi thương mại. Xin nguyện cho tất cả chúng sinh được sức khỏe và hạnh phúc; xin nguyện cho tất cả chúng sinh được giải thoát.
Book Synopsis Hermitage Among the Clouds by : Thich Nhat Hanh
Download or read book Hermitage Among the Clouds written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermitage Among the Clouds tells the story of the fourteenth century Princess Amazing Jewel, the daughter of one of Vietnam's greatest historical Zen master kings. This beautifully written story expreses the suffering caused by war and conflict, the transformative potential of a commitment to practicing peace and building reconciliation, and the simple beauty of a spiritual life. Thich Nhat Hanh gives us a window into Vietnam's past and at the same time, offers compelling insights about contemporary Southeast Asia and the world.
Book Synopsis Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan by : William M. Bodiford
Download or read book Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan written by William M. Bodiford and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Soto monks between the 13th and 16th centuries developed new forms of monastic organization and Zen instructions and new applications for Zen rituals within lay life; how these innovations helped shape rural society; and how remnants of them remain in the modern Soto school, now the lar
Book Synopsis Master Tang Hôi by : Nhất Hạnh (Thích.)
Download or read book Master Tang Hôi written by Nhất Hạnh (Thích.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Tang Hoi explores the life and teachings of Tang Hoi. The earliest known Buddhist meditation master of Vietnam, Tang Hoi's teachings are as insightful and valuable today as in the third century.
Book Synopsis The History of Buddhism in Vietnam by : Tai Thu Nguyen
Download or read book The History of Buddhism in Vietnam written by Tai Thu Nguyen and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam by : Laura Thuy-Loan Nguyen
Download or read book Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam written by Laura Thuy-Loan Nguyen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century, King-Monk Trần Nhân Tông founded the Trúc Lâm Thiền (Chan/Zen) sect. During the Golden Age in Vietnamese Buddhist history, the sect flourished under three patriarchs with renowned Thiền masters. Unfortunately, the Trúc Lâm sect faded over the following centuries, and Thiền Buddhism in Vietnam, for the most part, disappeared. In the late twentieth century, a growing new religious movement led by Thích Thanh Từ, a Pure Land monk, called for a restoration of Trúc Lâm Thiền Buddhism. Who is Thích Thanh Từ? How and why did he choose to revive this particular sect and its emancipation practices? Trúc Lâm currently boasts hundreds of monasteries and thousands of monks and nuns in Vietnam and beyond, but how have the forces of modernity influenced its original traditions? Through existing literature and extensive onsite fieldwork, this book analyzes the history and revival of a forgotten Buddhist sect and examines the movement’s reform.
Book Synopsis Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies by : Albert Welter
Download or read book Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies written by Albert Welter and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread across East Asia, with special attention to its impacts on Korean Sŏn and Japanese Zen. Zen enthralled the scholarly world throughout much of the twentieth century, and Zen Studies became a major academic discipline in its wake. Interpreted through the lens of Japanese Zen and its reaction to events in the modern world, Zen Studies incorporated a broad range of Zen-related movements in the East Asian Buddhist world. As broad as the scope of Zen Studies was, however, it was clearly rooted in a Japanese context, and aspects of the "Zen experience" that did not fit modern Japanese Zen aspirations tended to be marginalized and ignored. Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies acknowledges the move beyond Zen Studies to recognize the changing and growing parameters of the field. The volume also examines the modern dynamics in each of these traditions.
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Book Synopsis Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia by : D. Christian Lammerts
Download or read book Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia written by D. Christian Lammerts and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of historical Buddhism in premodern and early modern Southeast Asia stands at an exciting and transformative juncture. Interdisciplinary scholarship is marked by a commitment to the careful examination of local and vernacular expressions of Buddhist culture as well as to reconsiderations of long-standing questions concerning the diffusion of and relationships among varied texts, forms of representation, and religious identities, ideas, and practices. The twelve essays in this collection, written by leading scholars in Buddhist Studies and Southeast Asian history, epigraphy, and archaeology, comprise the latest research in the field to deal with the dynamics of mainland and (pen)insular Buddhism between the sixth and nineteenth centuries C.E. Drawing on new manuscript sources, inscriptions, and archaeological data, they investigate the intellectual, ritual, institutional, sociopolitical, aesthetic, and literary diversity of local Buddhisms, and explore their connected histories and contributions to the production of intraregional and transregional Buddhist geographies.
Book Synopsis Zen Buddhism and Nationalism in Vietnam by : Thiện Ân (Thích)
Download or read book Zen Buddhism and Nationalism in Vietnam written by Thiện Ân (Thích) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Việt Nam written by Ben Kiernan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics. This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of Viet Nam over the past 3,000 years. It brings to life their relationships with these regions' landscapes, water resources, and climatic conditions, their changing cultures and religious traditions, and their interactions with their neighbors in China and Southeast Asia. Key themes include the dramatic impact of changing weather patterns from ancient to medieval and modern times, the central importance of riverine and maritime communications, ecological and economic transformations, and linguistic and literary changes. The country's long experience of regional diversity, multi-ethnic populations, and a multi-religious heritage that ranges from local spirit cults to the influences of Buddhism, Confucianism and Catholicism, makes for a vividly pluralistic narrative. The arcs of Vietnamese history include the rise and fall of different political formations, from chiefdoms to Chinese provinces, from independent kingdoms to divided regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics. In the twentieth century anticolonial nationalism, the worldwide depression, Japanese occupation, a French attempt at reconquest, the traumatic American-Vietnamese war, and the 1975 communist victory all set the scene for the making of contemporary Viet Nam. Rapid economic growth in recent decades has transformed this one-party state into a global trading nation. Yet its rich history still casts a long shadow. Along with other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Viet Nam is now involved in a tense territorial standoff in the South China Sea, as a rival of China and a " of the United States. If its independence and future geographical unity seem assured, Viet Nam's regional security and prospects for democracy remain clouded.
Book Synopsis The Dragon Prince by : Thich Nhat Hanh
Download or read book The Dragon Prince written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2003-08-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dragon Prince is a collection of 15 stories and legends from Vietnam retold by Zen master poet and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. As in many of his teachings, Nhat Hanh emphasizes themes of cooperation and reconciliation, while providing a rich introduction to the mythical elements of Vietnamese culture. The stories range from creation myths to tales of wars and food and custom myths, all aiming at the notion of "mindfulness," of become aware of what is happening in the moment. Imaginary characters weave through the lives of actual persons and events, blending fiction and non-fiction, magic and fantasy, into the profound realization of the interconnectedness of all beings. The tales highlight the importance of "true seeing" and focuses on transcendence rather than anguish. Above all The Dragon Prince simply contains well-told stories with clear and lyrical writing, once again giving testament to Thich Nhat Hanh's immense skill as a writer. This book is a must for every collection. From the afterword by translator Mobi Warren: "The heroes and heroines of these stories celebrate closeness to the Earth, the importance of assuming personal responsibility for one's conduct, and the possibility of resolving conflict through understanding rather than violence". B/W Illustrations throughout.
Book Synopsis The Spirit of Zen by : Sam Van Schaik
Download or read book The Spirit of Zen written by Sam Van Schaik and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen texts Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were discovered in a sealed cave on the old Silk Road, in modern Gansu, China, in the early twentieth century. All more than a thousand years old, the manuscripts have sometimes been called the Buddhist Dead Sea Scrolls, and their translation has opened a new window onto the history of Buddhism. Both accessible and illuminating, this book explores the continuities between the ways in which Zen was practiced in ancient times, and how it is practiced today in East Asian countries such as Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as in the emerging Western Zen tradition.
Book Synopsis The Flaming Womb by : Barbara Watson Andaya
Download or read book The Flaming Womb written by Barbara Watson Andaya and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess of the Flaming Womb, the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet, despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia is central to arguments claiming a coherent identity for the region. This challenging work by senior scholar Barbara Watson Andaya considers such contradictions while offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women's roles and perceptions. Andaya explores the broad themes of the early modern era (1500-1800) - the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behaviors - drawing on an extraordinary range of sources and citing numerous examples from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine, and Malay societies.
Download or read book A Maritime Vietnam written by Tana Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful new history of Vietnam over two millennia arguing that key political changes resulted from the impact of the sea.
