How Long to Read Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

How Long Does it Take to Read Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism by Asian Religions University of Winnipeg Albert Welter Professor

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The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school began when, in seventh-century China, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. It has reached international popularity, its teachings disseminated across cultures far and wide. In Monks, Rulers, and Literati, Albert Welter presents, for the first time in a comprehensive fashion in a Western work, the story of the rise of Chan, a story which has been obscured by myths about Zen. Zen apologists in the twentieth century, Welter argues, sold the world on the story of Zen as a transcendental spiritualism untainted by political and institutional involvements. In fact, Welter shows that the opposite is true: relationships between Chan monks and political rulers were crucial to Chan's success. The book concentrates on an important but neglected period of Chan history, the 10th and 11th centuries, when monks and rulers created the so-called Chan "golden age" and the classic principles of Chan identity. Placing Chan's ascendancy into historical context, Welter analyzes the social and political factors that facilitated Chan's success as a movement. He then examines how this success was represented in the Chan narrative and the aims of those who shaped it. Monks, Rulers, and Literati recovers a critical period of Zen's past, deepening our understanding of how the movement came to flourish. Welter's groundbreaking work is not only the most comprehensive history of the dominant strand of East Asian Buddhism, but also an important corrective to many of the stereotypes about Zen.

How long is Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism?

Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism by Asian Religions University of Winnipeg Albert Welter Professor is 346 pages long, and a total of 88,576 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism aloud.

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Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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