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Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu

A Special Transmission Within the Scriptures

By: Albert Welter

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Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu

A Special Transmission Within the Scriptures

By: Albert Welter

Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing their critical role in the contested Buddhist and intellectual territories of the Five Dynasties and early Song dynasty China. Welter gives a comprehensive study of Yanshou's life, showing how Yanshou's Buddhist identity has been and continues to be disputed. He also provides an in-depth examination of the Zongjing lu, connecting it to Chan debates ongoing at the time of its writing. This analysis includes a discussion of the seminal meaning of the term zong as the implicit truth of Chan and Buddhist teaching, and a defining notion of Chan identity. Particularly significant is an analysis of the long underappreciated significance of the Chan fragments in the Zongjing lu, which constitute some of the earliest information about the teachings of Chan's early masters. In light of Yanshou's advocacy of a morally based Chan Buddhist practice, Welter also challenges the way Buddhism, particularly Chan, has frequently been criticized in Neo-Confucianism as amoral and unprincipled. Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu concludes with an annotated translation of fascicle one of the Zongjing lu, the first translation of the work into a Western language.

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Oxford University Press

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019984240X

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9780199842407

The Linji Lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy

The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature

By: Albert Welter

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The Linji Lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy

The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature

By: Albert Welter

The Linji lu, or Record of Linji, ranks among the most famous and influential texts of the Chan and Zen traditions. Ostensibly containing the teachings of the Tang dynasty figure Linji Yixuan, the text has generally been accepted at face value, as reliable records of the teachings of this historical figure. In this book, Albert Welter offers the first systematic study of the Linji lu in a western language. Welter places the Linji lu in its historical context, showing how the text was manipulated over time by the Linji faction. Rather than recording the teachings of the illustrious patriarch of legend, the text reflects the motivations of Linji-faction descendants in the Song dynasty (9601279). The story of the Linji lu is not simply the story of one heroic figure, Linji Yixuan, but the story of an entire movement that sought validation through retrospective image making. The success of this effort is seen in Chan's rise to prominence. Drawing on the findings of Japanese scholars, Welter moves beyond the minutiae of textual analysis to place the development of Linji lu within the broader forces shaping the development of the Chinese Records of Sayings literary genre as a whole.

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253

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Oxford University Press

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0198044097

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9780198044093

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

The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

By: Asian Religions University of Winnipeg Albert Welter Professor

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

The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

By: Asian Religions University of Winnipeg Albert Welter Professor

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 eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. It has reached international popularity, its teachings disseminated across cultures far and wide. In Monks, Rulers, and Literati, Albert Welter presents, for the first time in a comprehensive fashion in a Western work, the story of the rise of Chan, a story which has been obscured by myths about Zen. Zen apologists in the twentieth century, Welter argues, sold the world on the story of Zen as a transcendental spiritualism untainted by political and institutional involvements. In fact, Welter shows that the opposite is true: relationships between Chan monks and political rulers were crucial to Chan's success. The book concentrates on an important but neglected period of Chan history, the 10th and 11th centuries, when monks and rulers created the so-called Chan "golden age" and the classic principles of Chan identity. Placing Chan's ascendancy into historical context, Welter analyzes the social and political factors that facilitated Chan's success as a movement. He then examines how this success was represented in the Chan narrative and the aims of those who shaped it. Monks, Rulers, and Literati recovers a critical period of Zen's past, deepening our understanding of how the movement came to flourish. Welter's groundbreaking work is not only the most comprehensive history of the dominant strand of East Asian Buddhism, but also an important corrective to many of the stereotypes about Zen.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019972119X

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9780199721191

A Tale of Two Stūpas

Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in China

By: Albert Welter

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A Tale of Two Stūpas

Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in China

By: Albert Welter

Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, and the surrounding environs have one of the richest Buddhist cultures in China. In A Tale of Two Stupas, Albert Welter tells the story of Hangzhou Buddhism through the conceptions, erections, and resurrections of Yongming Stupa, dedicated to the memory of one of Hangzhou's leading Buddhist figures, and Leifeng Pagoda, built to house stupa relics of the historical Buddha. Welter delves into the intricacies of these two sites and pays particular attention to their origins and rebirths. These sites have suffered devastation and endured long periods of neglect, yet both have been resurrected and re-resurrected during their histories and have resumed meaningful places in the contemporary Hangzhou landscape, a mark of their power and endurance. A Tale of Two Stupas adopts a site-specific, regional approach in order to show how the dynamics of initial conception, resurrection, and re-resurrection work, and what that might tell us about the nature of Hangzhou and Chinese Buddhism.

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Oxford University Press

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0197606636

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9780197606636

The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories

By: Albert Wendt

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The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories

By: Albert Wendt

A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific and internationally. This collection brings together his classic stories published in the Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree and the Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories together with exciting, previously uncollected work. '. . . his stories have the tone of timeles, and very savvy, fables.' - New York Times 'A writer of international importance.' - Landfall

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457

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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1869799844

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9781869799847

Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree

By: Albert Wendt

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Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree

By: Albert Wendt

This early collection of eight short stories and a novella is vintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caught up in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviable directness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard to distinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changing world.

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162

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818237

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9780824818234

Clinical Respiratory Medicine

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Richard K. Albert,Stephen G. Spiro,James R. Jett

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Clinical Respiratory Medicine

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Richard K. Albert,Stephen G. Spiro,James R. Jett

This comprehensive clinical textbook examines all aspects of respiratory medicine. The editors take a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with the full range of pulmonary disorders, making this your ideal source for reference in clinical practice. Fully revised, this essential volume includes new chapters on PET imaging, implications of genetic research, oxygen therapy, and rehabilitation. Now an Expert Consult title, it comes with access to the complete contents of the book online, including all of the book’s images, downloadable for use in presentations. Provides complete clinical coverage so you can Better manage and treat patients with pulmonary disease. Uses templated, clinical chapters for consistent, concise, essential information. Includes coverage that reflects the way you practice medicine today with critical information relevant to everyday practice. Utilizes diagnostic algorithms to help you find critical information and at a glance. Includes new chapters on PET imaging, implications of genetic research, oxygen therapy, and rehabilitation to keep you up to date. Includes access to the complete contents of the book online, including all of the book’s images, downloadable for use in presentations.

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1031

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323070949

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9780323070942

Power Converters for Electric Vehicles

By: L. Ashok Kumar,S. Albert Alexander

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Power Converters for Electric Vehicles

By: L. Ashok Kumar,S. Albert Alexander

Power Converters for Electric Vehicles gives an overview, topology, design, and simulation of different types of converters used in electric vehicles (EV). It covers a wide range of topics ranging from the fundamentals of EV, Hybrid EV and its stepwise approach, simulation of the proposed converters for real-time applications and corresponding experimental results, performance improvement paradigms, and overall analysis. Drawing upon the need for novel converter topologies, this book provides the complete solution for the power converters for EV applications along with simulation exercises and experimental results. It explains the need for power electronics in the improvement of performance in EV. This book: Presents exclusive information on the power electronics of EV including traction drives. Provides step-by-step procedure for converter design. Discusses various topologies having different isolated and non-isolated converters. Describes control circuit design including renewable energy systems and electrical drives. Includes practical case studies incorporated with simulation and experimental results. Power Converters for Electric Vehicles will provide researchers and graduate students in Power Electronics, Electric Drives, Vehicle Engineering a useful resource for stimulating their efforts in this important field of the search for renewable technologies.

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CRC Press

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1000337537

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9781000337532

Neural Membranes

By: Grace Y. Sun,Nicolas Bazan,Jang-Yen Wu,Guiseppe Porcellati,Albert Y. Sun

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Neural Membranes

By: Grace Y. Sun,Nicolas Bazan,Jang-Yen Wu,Guiseppe Porcellati,Albert Y. Sun

One of the most active and productive areas of biological science in the past decade has been the study of the biochemical and biophysical prop erties of cell membranes. There is little doubt that membranes are essen tial components of all cellular systems and that each type of membrane manifests specific and characteristic cellular functions. In the nervous system, important events such as neurotransmission, receptor binding, ion transport, axonal transport, and cell uptake are all known to take place within the neural cell membrane. Phospholipids, one of the major components of membranes, not only provide the membrane with its structural integrity and physical proper ties, but also play an important role in regulating membrane function. Attention has recently been focused on the asymmetric localization of these molecules, the identification of discrete metabolic pools of phospholipids within the membrane matrix, and their involvement in sig nal transmission. Although synaptic membranes generally lack an active mechanism for the de novo biosynthesis of phospholipids, a number of enzymic routes are present for their interconversions and for facilitating metabolic turnover. Metabolites generated during the interconversion reactions may also exert a great influence in modulating membrane func tions. The phosphogylcerides of neural membranes are especially enriched in polyunsaturated fatty acids. However, only very small amounts of these fatty acids are present in the free form, and they are maintained in dynamic equilibrium with the membrane phospholipids.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461256364

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9781461256366

Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

By: Albert Feuerwerker,S. Cheng

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Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

By: Albert Feuerwerker,S. Cheng

The authors list and briefly describe nearly 500 books on modern Chinese history published in Communist China between 1949 and 1959. Includes an introductory essay.

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313

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BRILL

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1684171423

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9781684171422

Book's by Albert Chan

Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu

Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu

The Linji Lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy

The Linji Lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy

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

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

A Tale of Two Stūpas

A Tale of Two Stūpas

The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories

The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories

Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree

Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree

Clinical Respiratory Medicine

Clinical Respiratory Medicine

Power Converters for Electric Vehicles

Power Converters for Electric Vehicles

Neural Membranes

Neural Membranes

Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

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