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| The Poetry Demon: Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way | ||
| 作者 | Protass, Jason (著) |
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| 卷期 | Fall |
| 出版日期 | 2021 |
| 頁次 | 352 |
| 出版者 | University of Hawaii Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
| 叢書名 | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism |
| 叢書號 | 29 |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Brown University, USA. |
| 摘要 | Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about the large corpora—roughly 30,000 extant poems—composed by these monastics. Protass addresses the oversight by using strategies associated with religious studies, literary studies, and sociology. He weaves together poetry with a wide range of monastic sources and in doing so argues against positing a “literary Chan” movement that wrote poetry as a path to awakening; he instead presents an understanding of monks’ poetry grounded in the Song discourse of monks themselves. The work begins by examining how monks fashioned new genres, created their own books, and fueled a monastic audience for monks’ poetry. It traces the evolution of gāthā from hymns found in Buddhist scripture to an independent genre for poems associated with Chan masters as living buddhas. While Song monastic culture produced a prodigious amount of verse, at the same time it promoted prohibitions against monks’ participation in poetry as a worldly or Confucian art: This constructive tension was an animating force. The Poetry Demon highlights this and other intersections of Buddhist doctrine with literary sociality and charts productive pathways through numerous materials, including collections of Chan “recorded sayings,” monastic rulebooks, “eminent monk” and “flame record” hagiographies, manuscripts of poetry, Buddhist encyclopedia, primers, and sūtra commentary. Two chapter-length case studies illustrate how Song monks participated in two of the most prominent and conservative modes of poetry of the time, those of parting and mourning. Protass reveals how monks used Chan humor with reference to emptiness to transform acts of separation into Buddhist teachings. In another chapter, monks in mourning expressed their grief and dharma through poetry. The Poetry Demon impressively uncovers new and creative ways to study Chinese Buddhist monks’ poetry while contributing to the broader study of Chinese religion and literature. |
| 目次 | Acknowledgments ix Conventions xiii Introduction 1 PART ONE A Poetry of Their Own 1. Gāthā in Pre-Song and Song Contexts 33 2. Jisong in Practice 76 PART TWO Poetry and the Way 3. Poetry Is Not the Way 121 4. Poetry as Outer Learning: The Poetry Demon 158 PART THREE Monks and Literary Sociality 5. Parting Poetry 205 6. Personal Lamentations and Funerary Verse 238 Epilogue 274 Appendix: Poems by Title 283 Bibliography 287 Index 323 |
| ISBN | 9780824886622 (hbc) |
| 相關書評 | |
| 點閱次數 | 112 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.05.16 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.05.21 |
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