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Chan Before Chan is superbly conceived and crafted. Eric Greene draws on the most crucial formative and cutting-edge research relevant to the given subjects of discussion and handles primary sources with skill and judicious attention to historical context and provenance. This is an exciting read for anyone remotely interested in the semiotics, rhetoric, and politics of religious self-cultivation and claims to authorizing religious ""experience"" in medieval Buddhist China.--Daniel Stevenson, University of Kansas

Chan Before Chan is superbly conceived and crafted. Eric Greene draws on the most crucial formative and cutting-edge research relevant to the given subjects of discussion and handles primary sources with skill and judicious attention to historical context and provenance. This is an exciting read for anyone remotely interested in the semiotics, rhetoric, and politics of religious self-cultivation and claims to authorizing religious experience in medieval Buddhist China.--Daniel Stevenson, University of Kansas

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Eric M. Greene is assistant professor of religious studies at Yale University. Robert E. Buswell, Jr. holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is also Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and founding director of the university’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Korean Studies.

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