Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: Chán Buddhism in an Inter-religious and Cross-linguistic perspective

 Christoph Anderl



Part 1 Early Chán History Revisited



1 Early Chán Revisited: A Critical Reading of Dàoxuán’s Hagiographies of Bodhidharma, Huìkě and Their Associates

 John Jorgensen



2 Northern Chán and the Siddhaṃ Songs

 Christoph Anderl and Henrik H. Sørensen



Part 2 The Spread of Chán in the Northwestern Region



3 The Old Uigur Translation of the Siddhaṃ Songs

 Peter Zieme



4 Reconsidering Tibetan Chán

 Sam van Schaik



5 The Great Master Tōnglǐ: The Texts by a Liáo Buddhist Master among the Khara-Khoto Findings

 Kirill Solonin



Part 3 Chán in an Interreligious Perspective



6 The Meeting and Conflation of Chán and Esoteric Buddhism during the Táng

 Henrik H. Sørensen



7 Buddho–Daoist Interaction as Creative Dialogue: The Mind and Dào in Twofold Mystery Teaching

 Friederike Assandri



John R. McRae: A Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Christoph Anderl, Ph.D. (2005), is Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at Ghent University. He has published in the fields of Chinese Historical Linguistics, Dūnhuáng manuscript studies, Chán Buddhism, and Digital Humanities.



Christian Wittern, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor at the Institute of Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. He has published in the fields of Chán Buddhist historical works and Digital Humanities, in addition of being the director of several large database projects.



Contributors are Christoph Anderl, Friederike Assandri, John Jorgensen, Sam van Schaik, Kirill Solonin, Henrik Sørensen, Christian Wittern, Peter Zieme

Reviews

"Indeed, the volume is an extremely apt dedication to the late John R. McRae (1947–2011). Those with an interest in Chán Buddhism would find this volume utterly invaluable. Moreover, those with a wider interest in Buddhism, Chinese religion, and the general study of religious texts have much to gain from reading this."
- Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review47:2, 2021.