Entangled in Words: Lamp Records and the Development of Chan Buddhist Hagiographic Literature in Tang-Song Transition (ca. 750–1050) China Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the development of Chan Buddhist hagiographic literature from mid-Tang (ca. 750) to early Northern Song (960–1127) China, concentrating on the emergence of the so-called “lamp records” (denglu 燈錄) which were formative in establishing Chan/Zen Buddhism as an integrated tradition. The study examines lamp records as a literary genre through the two earliest extant witnesses: the locally produced Zutang ji 祖堂集 ...