Bodhidharma Outside Chan Literature: Immortal, Inner Alchemist, and Emissary from the Eternal Realm

In Daozang texts, sectarian hagiographies, and late imperial inner alchemy (neidan 内丹) writings, the life and teachings of Bodhidharma were reconceived in interesting ways, often by drawing upon and magnifying the Chan 禪 Buddhist motifs. From Daozang texts it is apparent that certain parties regarde...

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Main Author: Eskildsen, Stephen 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-150
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bodhidharma 470-543 / Dao zang / Hagiography / Alchemy / Immortality (Motif)
Further subjects:B returning to emptiness (guikong 歸空)
B Sects
B Shenguang
B embryonic breathing (taixi 胎息)
B Hagiography
B Liu Huayang
B Wu Shouyang
B Bodhidharma
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