...John R. McRae Abstract In comparison with other forms of Chinese religions, the study of Chinese Buddhism benefits from several factors. First, the international range of Buddhism allows for fruitful comparison with developments in other neighboring cultures such as India and Japan...

...John R. McRae Buddhist Hermeneutics . Edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr . Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism 6. Honolulu .: University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . viii, 298 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 120 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...John R. McRae Buddhism in the Sung . Edited By Peter N. Gregory and Daniel A. Getz Jr . Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 13. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 1999 . ix, 646 pp. $47.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001...

...John R. Mcrae Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism . By Peter D. Hershock . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 1996 . xv, 236 pp. $20.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 474 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Ginger McRae Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa . By Lu Gwei-Djen and Joseph Needham . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1980 . xxi, 427 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Chinese, Japanese, Western-Language Bibliographies, Index. $97.50. Copyright ©...

...John R. McRae Dōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation . By Carl Bielefeldt . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1988 . 259 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 853 However, the author's goals are far more...

...Alan Sponberg The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism . By John R. McRae . Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism 3. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . xvi, 393 , and 44 pp. of Chinese texts. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Communications to the Editor To THE EDITOR: At the outset of his brief review of Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism, John R. McRae states that although the book "offers an intriguing new...

... Press, 1987. xvi, 393, and 44 pp. of Chinese texts. $40.00. John McRae's meticulous study of the development of Shen-hsiu's "Northern School" is the most comprehensive history of early Ch'an Buddhism currently available in any Western language. McRae carefully summarizes the ground-breaking scholarship...

... and the Gradual Approaches of Zen Master Mahayana: Fragments of the Teachings of Mo-ho-yen," by Luis O. Gomez; "The Ox-head School of Chinese Ch'an Buddhism: From Early Ch'an to the Golden Age," by John R. McRae; "The Teaching of Men and Gods: The Doctrinal and Social Basis of Lay Buddhist Practice in the Hua-yen...

... hai jing (Sūtra on the ocean-like samādhi of the visualization of the Buddha). Yamabe argues that Saivite phallicism might have reached China in modified and Buddhicized form. The chapters by Shi Zhiru, Ye Derong, and John R. McRae deal with three other important elements of ancient India-China...

.... The second half of the book is written by specialists in Zen studies. Burton Watson discusses the relation of Zen and poetry. John R. McRae treats Liu-tsu t'an ching (Platform sutra of the sixth patriarch) in connection with the origins of Zen. Philip Yampolsky delineates some salient aspects of the history...

... opposition has generally been perceived as an issue of enlightenment and the practices associated with it, the present book makes it clear that the opposition has had a much broader application. John McRae argues convincingly that the traditional distinction between the Northern and Southern Ch'an schools...

...," by John R. McRae; "The Teaching of Men and Gods: The Doctrinal and Social Basis of Lay Buddhist Practice in the Hua-yen Tradition," by Peter N. Gregory; and "Li T'ung-hsiian and the Practical Dimensions of Hua-yen," by Robert M. Gimello. The articles by Broughton and Gomez are both based on Chinese...

...' chapters we can appreciate their efforts to redefine Zen compared with Morinaga's more traditionalist stance. The second half of the book is written by specialists in Zen studies. Burton Watson discusses the relation of Zen and poetry. John R. McRae treats Liu-tsu t'an ching (Platform sutra of the sixth...

... outmoded scholarship. Surprisingly as well, Pan's discussion of Chan history and ideology completely ignores the seminal work of such scholars as John McRae, Bernard Faure, Griffith Foulk, and Robert Sharf, among others. Given the wealth of Buddhological and Sinological erudition on display throughout...

... 2009 In recent decades, scholars such as John McRae, Griffith Foulk, and Bernard Faure have argued that the Tang period (618–907) “golden age” of Chan Buddhism, as we have come to see it, was, in many ways, an illusion created by later Buddhist authors who carefully crafted the textual record...

... scholarship on Shenhui by Hu Shi, John McRae, and Jacques Gernet, require that Cole dedicate substantial attention to this important Chan figure, and his extensive discussion of Shenhui in chapter 6 makes important contributions to our understanding of early Chan history. Cole demonstrates that the debate...

... was opened up by Yanagida Seizan, Bernard Faure, John McRae, Jeffrey Broughton, and others. Now, more of us have returned to the view that the formation of Chan as a distinctive soteriological approach did indeed begin in the Tang, while recognizing that the picture of Tang Chan presented in Song texts...

... of the bodhisattva path are unnecessary for the enlightened? For such thinkers striving for moral perfection is still an ego-limited quest within the realm of conventional sensibilities. McRae emphasizes the legendary character of Ch'an patriarchal transmission, and notes that the term "school" is inappropriate...