Chánmén yàolüè 禪門要略
Brief Outline of the Meditation-Gate by 智顗 (Zhìyǐ / Tiāntái dàshī, 出)
About the work
A short single-juan compact meditation outline by Zhìyǐ 智顗, providing the most synoptic of his various meditation manuals. Companion to KR6d0207.
Abstract
The Chánmén yàolüè belongs to the standard Tiāntái meditation-manual corpus and provides the most accessible compact introduction to Zhìyǐ’s meditative apparatus. The composition is bracketed within Zhìyǐ’s productive period c. 575–597.
Translations and research
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See KR6d0143 for the bibliography on Zhìyǐ’s meditation manuals.