Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark
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Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark

The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul's Excerpts on Zen Practice

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark

The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul's Excerpts on Zen Practice

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Conventions
  4. I. Translator’s Introduction
  5. Chinul’s Excerpts and the Sudden / Gradual Debate in East Asian Buddhism
  6. Excerpts as Chinul’s Religious Autobiography
  7. The Title of the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
  8. Zongmi’s and Chinul’s Treatments of the Four Chan / Sŏn Schools
  9. Numinous Awareness and Tracing Back the Radiance
  10. Excerpts and the Debates Concerning Sudden vs. Gradual Enlightenment
  11. Sudden Awakening / Gradual Cultivation: Chinul’s Preferred Soteriology of Moderate Subitism
  12. Different Soteriological Schemata
  13. Problems with Radical Subitism
  14. Radical Subitism and the Kanhwa Technique
  15. Contemporary Critiques of Chinul’s Moderate Subitism
  16. Must Kanhwa Sŏn Entail Radical Subitism?
  17. Excerpts’ Legacy in Korean Buddhism
  18. II. Translation
  19. Chinul’s Excerpts from the “Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record” with Inserted Personal Notes: An Annotated Translation
  20. I. Chinul’s Preface
  21. II. Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record
  22. III. Chinul’s Exposition
  23. Appendix: Complete Table of Contents of Chinul’s Excerpts
  24. Abbreviations
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. About the Translator