Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism

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This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study. (Source: University of Hawai'i Press)

Citation	Gregory, Peter N. Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism. Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism 16. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. First Published 1991 by Princeton University Press.

Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii CHAPTER ONE Introduction 3 PART ONE: Tsung-mi's Life CHAPTER TWO A Biography of Tsung-mi 27 Classical Background (780-804) 28 Ch 'an Training and the Scripture of Perfect Enlightenment (804-810) 33 Ch'eng-kuan and Hua-yen (810–816) 58 Early Scholarship (816-828) 68 Literati Connections (828-835) 73 The Sweet Dew Incident (835) 85 Later Years and Death (835-841) 88

PART Two: Doctrinal Classification CHAPTER THREE Doctrinal Classification 93 The Hermeneutical Problem in Buddhism 93 The Chinese Context 104

CHAPTER FOUR Doctrinal Classification in the Hua-yen Tradition 115 Chih-yen's Classification Schemes 117 Fa-tsang's Classification Scheme 127 Tsung-mi's Classification Scheme 134

CHAPTER FIVE The Sudden Teaching 136 The Sudden Teaching According to Fa-tsang 137 The Problematical Nature of the Sudden Teaching 142 The Sudden Teaching and Ch'an 144

The Sudden Teaching in Tsung-mi's Thought 146

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