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Inventing Hui-neng (John Jorgensen)
Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch
An exhaustive study of how Huineng's hagiography, relics and cult were manufactured between the eighth and eleventh centuries, with particular attention to Confucian biographical models and to the Caoxi mummy.
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Authorship note
Monograph by John Jorgensen (Brill).
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Sources
- Jorgensen, John. Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch'an. Leiden: Brill (Sinica Leidensia 68), 2005. ISBN 9004145087.
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