The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea

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**{{i|The ''Vajrasamādhi'' in the Chinese Catalogues|33}}
 
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Chapter Two The Hagiographies of the Korean Scholiast
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Wonhyo: The Dating and Provenance of the Vajrasamadhi 41
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**{{i|The ''Sung Kao-seng chuan'' Hagiography and the Provenance
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of the ''Vajrasamādhi''|43}}
of the Vajrasamadhi 43
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**{{i|The ''Samguk Yusa'' Hagiography and the Dating of the ''Vajrasamādhi''| 60}}
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Chapter Three The Doctrinal Teachings of the Vajrasamadhi 74
 
Chapter Three The Doctrinal Teachings of the Vajrasamadhi 74

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This book contains an extensive study and a translation of the Vajrasamādhi Sūtra and makes a convincing argument to rethink the "national lines of argument" that had previously dominated discussions of East Asian Buddhist traditions. Buswell shows how Chan developed in multiple communities; it was not a Chinese phenomenon that was then exported to Korea and Japan. He also shows how the scripture is firmly in the Chinese Yogācāra tradition of Paramārtha, containing an extensive discussion of "immaculate consciousness" (amalavijñāna), the ninth consciousness which unites saṃsāra and nirvāṇa in a "single taste." Buswell draws on Japanese scholarship, such as that by Mozuno Kōgen, who first concluded that the sūtra was an apocryphon.

Citation Buswell, Robert E., Jr. The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The Vajrasamādhi-Sūtra, A Buddhist Apocryphon. Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.