Eminent nuns : women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China
Honolulu
University of Hawai'i Press
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]191[-235( and index
Beata Grant
Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru
Biography ، Buddhist nuns -- China
، Monastic and religious life )Zen Buddhism( -- China