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Article: Zen in Medieval Vietnam -- A Study and Translation of the Thien Uyen Tap Anh.(Review)
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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- September 1, 1999
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Zen in Medieval Vietnam -- A Study and Translation of the Thien Uyen Tap Anh. By NGUYEN CUONG TU. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Pp.ix, 483. Appendices, Bibliography, Index.
Buddhism in Vietnam has been accepted as essentially Zen in character with a tradition of continuous transmission of teachings from founding patriarchs traceable to China. This view continues to be upheld by most Vietnamese scholars and the public at large today. The foundation of this premise rests almost entirely on the interpretation of a fourteenth-century text, the Thien Uyen Tap Anh (henceforth TUTA) being the oldest extant record on eminent monks since the entry of ...