Includes Lidai fabao ji (Record of the dharma-jewel through the generations) in Chinese with English translation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-556) and index.

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Acknowledgments; PART 1: The Mystique of Transmission; Chapter 1: Authority and Authenticity; Fabrications; On the Background of the Lidai Fabao Ji; An Overview; Chapter 2: Transmission and Translation; The Challenge of Continuity; Summary of the Contents of the Lidai Fabao Ji; Emperor Ming of the Han; Daoan and Transmission of Forms; Buddhabhadra and Transmission of Lineage; Huiyuan's Transmission of Space and Place; The Mystique of Legitimacy; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Transmission and Lay Practice; The Interdependence of Lay and Ordained Practice.

Criteria of Authenticity of the Dharmaand the Authority of the OrdainedThe Role of the Bodhisattva Precepts in Lay Devotional Practice; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Material Buddhism and the Dharma Kings; The Dangers of Empire; The Northern Wei and Spiritual Materialism; Empires of Signs; The Legacy of Tiantai Zhiyi; The Renwang Jing; The Sanjie (three levels) Movement; Imaginary Cultic Robes; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Robes and Patriarchs; The "Chan" Question; Tales of the Chan Patriarchs; A Genealogy of Patriarchal Lineages; Shenhui's Rhetoric; Inconceivable Robes in the Vajrasam�adhi-s�utra.

Robes Purple and GoldThe Reforms of Emperor Xuanzong; Chapter 6: Wuzhu and His Others; The Second Part of the Lidai Fabao Ji; A Note about Style; Mass Precepts Ceremonies and Formless Precepts; Transmission from Wuxiang to Wuzhu; Locating Wuzhu; Antinomianism in the Monastery; Women in the Lidai Fabao Ji; Daoists in the Dharma Hall; Chapter 7: The Legacy of the Lidai Fabao Ji; The Portrait-Eulogy for Wuzhu; Developments After the Lidai Fabao Ji; Conclusion; PART 2: Annotated Translation of the Lidai fabao ji; Section 1: Sources and the Legend of Emperor Ming of the Han.

Section 2: Buddhism in ChinaSection 3: Transmission from India to China; Section 4: The First Patriarch, Bodhidharmatr�ata; Section 5: The Second Patriarch, Huike; Section 6: The Third Patriarch, Sengcan; Section 7: The Fourth Patriarch, Daoxin; Section 8: The Fifth Patriarch, Hongren; Section 9: The Sixth Patriarch, Huineng, Part 1; Section 10: Dharma Master Daoan and Scripture Quotations; Section 11: Huineng, Part 2; Section 12: Zhishen and Empress Wu; Section 13: Chan Master Zhishen; Section 14: Chan Master Chuji; Section 15: Chan Master Wuxiang; Section 16: The Venerable Shenhui.

Section 17: Discourses of the Venerable WuzhuSection 18: Wuzhu and Wuxiang; Section 19: Du Hongjian's Arrival in Shu; Section 20: Du Hongjian and Wuzhu Meet; Section 21: Cui Gan Visits Wuzhu; Section 22: Dialogue with Chan Master Tiwu; Section 23: Dialogue with Chan Master Huiyi; Section 24: Dialogue with Masters Yijing, Zhumo, and Tangwen; Section 25: Dialogue with Master Jingzang; Section 26: Dialogue with Master Zhiyi; Section 27: Dialogue with Master Zhongxin; Section 28: Dialogue with Dharma Master Falun; Section 29: Dialogue with the Brothers Yixing and Huiming.

The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the eighth-century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan. Chinese religions scholar Wendi Adamek compares the Lidai fabao ji with other sources from the fourth through.

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