书名：Illusory Abiding: The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben / 幻影永恒：中峰明本禅师的文化架构
定价：430.0
ISBN：9780674417113
作者：Natasha Heller
版次：1
出版时间：2014-01

内容提要：
书名：Illusory Abiding: The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben / 幻住：禅僧中峰明本的文化建构
作者：Natasha Heller (娜塔莎·海勒)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2014年
装帧：精装，486页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm（6 x 9 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6744-1711-3

简介
这是一部关于元代佛教的开创性专著，通过对著名禅僧中峰明本的个案研究，呈现了一部佛教文化史。娜塔莎·海勒指出，明本及其同侪僧侣发展出广泛的文化能力，以此在复杂的社会与思想关系中穿行。他们精通佛教传统内部的范式——例如寺院生活清规——同时也掌握与更广泛的精英受众互动的技能，如创作咏梅诗的能力。这些文化交流活动发生于地方、宗教与社会网络之中，而同时，它们本身也是形成这些网络的力量的一部分。本书深化了对帝制晚期中国佛教的理解，并揭示了将僧侣置于更广阔的社会文化实践与交流场域中的重要性。
本书获学界高度评价，被认为“成功地描述和诠释了中峰明本作为积极参与者的文化与社会语境”，以“清晰、启发性且细致的画面”呈现了这位高僧的形象，并因打破学科壁垒、融合文献学、文学、历史学、社会学、佛学研究和艺术史等多元方法而备受赞誉。

This groundbreaking monograph on Yuan dynasty Buddhism offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the eminent Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Natasha Heller demonstrates that Mingben, and other monks of his stature, developed a range of cultural competencies through which they navigated social and intellectual relationships. They mastered repertoires internal to their tradition—for example, guidelines for monastic life—as well as those that allowed them to interact with broader elite audiences, such as the ability to compose verses on plum blossoms. These cultural exchanges took place within local, religious, and social networks—and at the same time, they comprised some of the very forces that formed these networks in the first place. This monograph contributes to a more robust account of Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China, and demonstrates the importance of situating monks as actors within broader sociocultural fields of practice and exchange.