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    <title>Linji lu and the creation of Chan orthodoxy</title>
    <subTitle>the development of Chan's records of sayings literature</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Welter, Albert</namePart>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>236 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Defining orthodoxy in the Chan/Zen traditions -- Tracing the elusive yulu: the origins of Chan's records of sayings -- Narration in action: early fragments of Linji's teachings -- Giving form to the formless: the formation of the Linji lu -- Strange brew: the fictional background to yulu encounter dialogues -- Toward a conclusion: the Linji lu and the process of yulu formation.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>HKBU library</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Albert Welter.</note>
  <note type="venue">YT2025 M10</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Yixuan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-867</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Zen literature, Chinese</topic>
    <topic>History and criticism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Zen Buddhism</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BQ9399 W464 L 2008</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780195329575</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0195329570</identifier>
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