Bøger af Eric M. Greene

Offers a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. Eric Greene focuses on how medieval Chinese Buddhists interpreted their own and others' visionary experiences and the nature of the authority they ascribed to them.

Presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of the 'Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan' ('Chan Essentials') and the 'Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness' ('Methods for Curing'). These documents reveal a distinctly visionary form of Buddhist meditation.