[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 16

[Elihu Smith]

Stuart,

Thank you for your paper on hua-t'ou. 

As another resource on this topic, I highly recommend "How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China," by Morten Schlutter. He explores hua-tou and Ta-hui, as well as Cáodòng and Linji lineage formation and conflicts, in depth and with interesting and insightful findings.

Elihu Smith



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> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:50:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Stuart Lachs <slachs at att.net>
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> Dear colleagues,
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> I have a new paper, ?Hua-t?ou: A Method of Zen Meditation.?
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> The paper discusses a form of meditation practice known in
> Chinese as hua-
> t?ou. It was popularized by the Chinese Zen master Ta-Hui
> (1089 ? 1163) a
> member of the Lin-Chi sect of?Zen.
>  
> 
> In particular, the paper discusses what a hua-t?ou is, why
> Ta-Hui placed so
> much importance on it, why this practice could be of
> interest to at least some
> people today, give examples of well known hua-t?ou, offer
> one way to practice
> this method, describe some states of mind that may arise
> when doing the
> practice, offer some?personal experience from my own long
> years of?practicing
> the hua-t?ou, and discuss what it means to have a Zen
> awakening. In conclusion,
> I offer cautions related to?having an awakening experience
> and the
> importance of continuing practice thereafter.
> 
> 
> The paper is available on the internet at,
> 
> http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/forskning/nettverk/obsf/podcast/2012/docs/LachsZen_2012_03_16.pdf.
> 
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> Stuart Lachs
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