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E-ISBN 978-0-231-51308-1

The author thanks Abbot Aoki of Kumida-dera in Osaka for kind permission to reproduce the portrait of Zongmi used as this book’s frontispiece.

Thanks to Yoshioka Nobuko for her kind assistance in securing permission from Kumida-dera and Stephen M. Strasen for his kind assistance in digitizing the image. Source: Portrait of Guifeng Zongmi (Keihō Shūmitsu; 780–841). Hanging scroll. Ink with color on silk. 95 × 53 cm. Late fourteenth to early fifteenth centuries. One of a set of four portraits of Kegon school patriarchs in the possession of Kumida-dera in Osaka prefecture.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Broughton, Jeffrey L., 1944–

Zongmi on Chan / Jeffrey Lyle Broughton.

p. cm.—(Translations from the Asian classics)

Includes English translations of Chinese texts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-14392-9 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-51308-1 (e-book)

1. Zongmi, 780–841.  2. Zen Buddhism—China—Doctrines.  I. Title.

BQ8249.T787B76 2009

294.3′9270951—dc22                                                                          2008040358

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