mindfulness-and-mindlessness-in-early_sharf-rob.md

title	authors	external_url	source_url	drive_links	course	status	tags	year	month	journal	volume	number	pages	publisher	openalexid
Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chan	sharf-rob	https://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/HistoricalZen/Mind_and_Mindlessness.pdf	https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2014.0074	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Onw13usSEBEBPJd60d1SPMrPTQ0U56pp/view?usp=drivesdk	sati	featured	east-asian modern	2014	jan	Philosophy East and West	64	4	933--964	hawaii	W1981022144

It was during this fertile period—[the seventh and eighth centuries, or] "early Chan"—that the lineage myths, doctrinal innovations, and distinctive rhetorical voice of the Chan, Zen, Son, and Thien schools first emerged. Although hundreds of books and articles have appeared on the textual and doctrinal developments associated with Chan, relatively little has been written on the distinctive meditation practices, if any, of this movement. This essay emerged from an attempt to answer a seemingly straightforward question: what kinds of meditation techniques were promulgated in early Chan circles? The answer, it turned out, involved historical and philosophical forays into the notion of "mindfulness"