Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451875

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0451875

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Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Mujaku Dochu (1653-1744) and the hidden foundations of modern Zen scholarship. Mujaku Dochu (1653-1744), a polymath Japanese monk of the Rinzai Zen Buddhist school was the major, but unacknowledged, founder of modern Zen scholarship. He established many critical editions, compiled dictionaries of colloquial Chinese terminology used in Zen, and wrote numerous commentaries or glosses to key Zen texts. He wrote the monastic regulations still used in Rinzai monasteries, and advised Hakuin (1685-1768), the restorer of all modern Rinzai. This study will investigate Dochu's methodologies, his scholarly predecessors, and his influences on contemporaries and on modern Zen scholarship by examining his analyses of Chinese vocabulary, his lexicography and text criticism.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $87,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Lexicography | Religion and Religious Traditions | Buddhist Studies | Textual Transmission And The Material Record

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Religion and society |

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