Zongmi on Chan

Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning ( gakumon ) in Buddhism and personal experience ( taiken ) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the first time in English, Jeffrey Broughton presents an annotated translation of Zongmi's magnum opus, the Chan Prolegomenon , along with translations of his Chan Letter and Chan Notes . The Chan Prolegomenon persuasively argues that Chan "axiom re