Buddhist traditions ; v. 16. 

xi, 474 pages : 24 cm.; An outgrowth of a conference held in Los Angeles, May 1981 and sponsored by Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values.; I. The sudden and gradual debates -- The mirror of the mind / Paul Demiéville -- Sudden illumination or simultaneous comprehension : remarks on Chinese and Tibetan terminology / R.A. Stein -- Purfying gold : the metaphor of effort and intuition in Buddhist thought and practice / Luis O. Gómez -- II. Sudden and gradual enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism -- Tao-sheng's theory of sudden enlightenment re-examined / Whalen Lai -- Sudden and gradual intimately conjoined : Chih-i's T'ien-t ai view / Neal Donner -- Shen-hui and the teaching of sudden enlightenment in early Ch'an Buddhism / John R. McRae -- Sudden enlightenment followed by gradual cultivation : Tsung-mi's analysis of mind / Peter N. Gregory -- The "short-cut" approach of K'an-hua meditation : the evoluation of a practical subitism in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism / Robert E. Buswell, Jr. -- III. Analogies in the cultural sphere -- The sudden and the gradual in Chinese poetry criticism : an examination of the Ch'an poetry analogy / Richard John Lynn -- Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's "southern and northern schools" in the history and theory of painting : a reconsideration / James Cahill.; 

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