Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam
Title | Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Thich Thien-an |
Publisher | Tuttle Publishing |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 1992-09-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 146291151X |
Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam provides, for Western readers, a much needed introduction to this important religion—its history, practices, concepts, and role in the lives of the people, the nation, and Vietnamese culture. Recently, Vietnam has aroused the attention of the Western world and made the task of understanding Vietnamese Buddhism more imperative. This Buddhist book gives a comprehensive account of Buddhism in Vietnam and the various Zen Buddhist schools in Vietnam and their relation to Buddhism in other Asian countries. Students of Vietnamese culture and Zen Buddhism will find this penetrating and enlightening study of incalculable value.
Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam
Title | Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Thuy-Loan Nguyen |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2021-01-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1527564460 |
In the thirteenth century, King-Monk Trần Nhân Tông founded the Trúc Lâm Thiền (Chan/Zen) sect. During the Golden Age in Vietnamese Buddhist history, the sect flourished under three patriarchs with renowned Thiền masters. Unfortunately, the Trúc Lâm sect faded over the following centuries, and Thiền Buddhism in Vietnam, for the most part, disappeared. In the late twentieth century, a growing new religious movement led by Thích Thanh Từ, a Pure Land monk, called for a restoration of Trúc Lâm Thiền Buddhism. Who is Thích Thanh Từ? How and why did he choose to revive this particular sect and its emancipation practices? Trúc Lâm currently boasts hundreds of monasteries and thousands of monks and nuns in Vietnam and beyond, but how have the forces of modernity influenced its original traditions? Through existing literature and extensive onsite fieldwork, this book analyzes the history and revival of a forgotten Buddhist sect and examines the movement’s reform.
Master Tang Hôi
Title | Master Tang Hôi PDF eBook |
Author | Nhất Hạnh (Thích.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Buddhist priests |
ISBN | 9781888375138 |
Master Tang Hoi explores the life and teachings of Tang Hoi. The earliest known Buddhist meditation master of Vietnam, Tang Hoi's teachings are as insightful and valuable today as in the third century.
Zen in Medieval Vietnam
Title | Zen in Medieval Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Cuong Tu Nguyen |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780824819484 |
A study and translation of a 14th-century text on the transmission of the Zen lineages in Vietnam. The author argues that there has never been a Zen tradition in Vietnam, but that Zen manifests itself in a philosophical attitude and artistic sentiments throughout religious and cultural life.
Buddhism and Zen in Vietnam in Relation to the Development of Buddhism in Asia
Title | Buddhism and Zen in Vietnam in Relation to the Development of Buddhism in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Thieh Thien-An |
Publisher | College of Oriental Studies Graduate School |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
An introduction to the history, concepts, and practices of traditional Vietnamese Buddhism and Zen Buddhism and to their traditional and contemporary roles in Vietnamese life, politics, and culture.
Buddhism of Wisdom and Faith
Title | Buddhism of Wisdom and Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Thiền Tâm (Thích.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN |
Zen Conquests
Title | Zen Conquests PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Soucy |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2022-07-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0824892194 |
At the tail end of the twentieth century, a monk transformed a small village temple on the outskirts of Hanoi into a monastery and meditation center called Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc—a place where monastics and lay Buddhists could learn and practice Zen meditation. In time the original temple was replaced by numerous large buildings to accommodate meditation sessions, youth events, weddings, classes, and a variety of other activities designed to keep practitioners engaged. Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc’s approach to Buddhism as a life commitment for all ages and genders has been very successful, attracting more than a thousand Buddhists to its weekly services. It joined Thiền phái Trúc Lâm, a much larger organization started by Thích Thanh Từ in southern Vietnam that has expanded to northern Vietnam and internationally. In Zen Conquests, Alexander Soucy presents not only the first ethnography of Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc and its followers, but also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam. Thiền Viện Sùng Phúc’s Zen tradition purports to be a continuation of the only Zen Buddhist sect founded in Vietnam: the fourteenth-century Trúc Lâm Zen School. However, the movement can also be seen as the product of Buddhism’s globalization, born from the D. T. Suzuki-inspired interest in Zen in South Vietnam during the American War. Despite its claims to be authentically Vietnamese Zen, it more closely resembles Modernist versions of Buddhism practiced by Western converts in North America than anything Vietnamese. Soucy maintains that it is only by looking at the processes of globalization that Vietnamese Buddhism (both in the context of Vietnam but also in the Vietnamese diaspora) can be properly understood. He argues convincingly for acknowledging the continued influence of transnational, pan-Asian, and global flows of migration and communication on the development of multiple forms of Buddhism worldwide.