Sudden and Gradual

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Contents

• Forewordv
• Acknowledgmentsix
• Abbreviationsxi

• Introduction1
  • Peter N. Gregory
    • • • • I . The Sudden and Gradual Debates
• The Mirror of the Mind13
  • Paul Demiéville

• Sudden Illumination or Simultaneous Comprehension: Remarks on Chinese and Tibetan Terminology41
  • R. A. Stein

• Purifying Gold: The Metaphor of Effort and Intuition in Buddhist Thought and Practice67
  • Luis O. Gomez

• • • • II. Sudden and Gradual Enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism
• Tao-sheng’s Theory of Sudden Enlightenment Re-examined169
  • Whalen Lai

• Sudden and Gradual Intimately Conjoined: Chih-i’s T’ien-t’ai View201
  • Neal Donner

• Shen-hui and the Teaching o f Sudden Enlightenment in Early Ch’an
  Buddhism227
  • John R. McRae

• Sudden Enlightenment Followed by Gradual Cultivation: Tsung-mi’s Analysis
  of Mind279
  • Peter N . Gregory

• The "Short-cut" Approach o f K'an-hua Meditation: The Evolution of a Practical Subitism in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism321
  • Robert E . Buswell, Jr.

• • • • • • III. Analogies in the Cultural Sphere
• The Sudden and the Gradual in Chinese Poetry Criticism: An Examination of the Ch’an-Poetry Analogy381
  • Richard John Lynn

• Tung Ch’i-ch'ang's "Southern and Northern Schools" in the History and Theory of Painting: A Reconsideration429
  • James Cahill

• Afterword by Tu Wei-ming447
• Contributors457
• Index461