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Culture and Buddhism in Ferment: Ten Classics of the Northern and Southern Dynasties
Reading the Chinese Classics, Season 6
Completed · 126 episodes
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Yang Zhao: Why Spend Ten Years Teaching the Chinese Classics? “When the Nation Suffers, Poets Flourish”: Seeking Answers in the Northern and Southern Dynasties 1.1 Why Was There a Literary Form Called “Seven”? 1.2 What Is the Relationship between Selections of Refined Literature and Crown Prince Zhaoming? 1.3 How Did Six Dynasties Literature Nourish High-Tang Poetry? 1.4 Who Was More “Lustful,” Song Yu or Dengtuzi? | Rhapsody on Master Dengtu's Lust 1 1.5 The Misread Rhapsody of “Feeling” | Rhapsody on Master Dengtu's Lust 2; Rhapsody on Climbing the Tower 1 1.6 Why Does Sorrow Persist despite the Fine View from the Tower? | Rhapsody on Climbing the Tower 2 1.7 Wang Can's Sorrowful “Campaigner” | Rhapsody on Climbing the Tower 3; Army Campaign Poems 1 1.8 Wang Can and Ruan Yu: Flatterers under Cao Cao | Army Campaign Poems 2; Letter for Cao Cao to Sun Quan 1 1.9 The Art of a Peace Proposal: Allusion, Shifting Viewpoint, and Moral Pressure | Letter for Cao Cao to Sun Quan 2 1.10 Peace Proposal or Threatening Letter? | Letter for Cao Cao to Sun Quan 3 1.11 A Literatus's Range: Emotional Letters and Diplomatic Documents | Letter for Cao Cao to Sun Quan 4 1.12 Who Suffers More, the Dead or the Living? | Rhapsody on the Widow 1 1.13 How Do We Face Hatred of Others' Deaths and Our Own? | Rhapsody on the Widow 2; Rhapsody on Regret 1 1.14 How Many Ways Can “Regret” Be Written? | Rhapsody on Regret 2 1.15 How Did Jiang Yan Write Parting in a Singular Way? | Rhapsody on Parting 2.1 An Unusual Yan Family and the Untimely Family Instructions for the Yan Clan 2.2 Family Instructions Rooted in Its Historical Moment | Engaging in Affairs; Pronunciation and Diction 2.3 Miscellaneous “Family Instructions”: Calligraphy, Inscriptions, and Clan Taboos | Miscellaneous Arts; Customs and Conduct 2.4 How Did Yan Zhitui Teach the “Secrets” of Ancient Education? | Teaching Children 1 2.5 Golden Rules for Raising Children: What Must Never Be Done? | Teaching Children 2 2.6 How Should the Household Head Oversee the Whole? | Managing the Family 1 2.7 Excessive Giving, Hoarding, and Imbalanced Power: Men and Women Who Cannot Manage a Household | Managing the Family 2 2.8 Women, Books, and Religion in Family Instructions | Managing the Family 3 2.9 Talent Is Rare—How Should the Worthy Be Treated? | Admiring the Worthy 1 2.10 Beyond Family Status in a Chaotic Age, What Else Matters? | Admiring the Worthy 2; Encouraging Learning 3.1 Are Different Works of Classical Chinese Actually Very Different? 3.2 How Can Writing Extend an Entire Life? | Statement of Intent 1 3.3 Xiao Tong and Liu Xie Both Classified Literature—Who “Copied” Whom? | Statement of Intent 2 3.4 Follow the Ancients or Seek Novelty? | Statement of Intent 3 3.5 How Can Essays Help Us Understand the Classics? | Revering the Classics 1 3.6 The Classics: A Fountain of Inspiration for Varied Writing | Revering the Classics 2 3.7 Liu Xie Already Identified the History and Function of Poetry | Clarifying Poetry 1 3.8 From Four-Syllable to Five-Syllable Verse, from Admonition to Self-Expression | Clarifying Poetry 2 3.9 Both Discuss “Poetry”—but Do They Mean the Same Thing? | Clarifying Poetry 3 3.10 What Were Ancient “Popular Songs” Like? | Music Bureau Poetry 1 3.11 The Disappearance of Music: Yuefu History and the Evolution of Rhymed Writing | Music Bureau Poetry 2 3.12 Across Time, Resonating with Liu Xie through Imagination | Music Bureau Poetry 3; Spiritual Thought 1 3.13 How Can Writers Keep Rich Imagination from Becoming Thin Prose? | Spiritual Thought 2 3.14 Does Faster Writing Mean Greater Talent? | Spiritual Thought 3 3.15 Spirit and Bone, Beauty Inside and Out: Liu Xie's “Phoenix Prose” | Spirit and Bone 4.1 Why Read an Ancient “Geography Book”? 4.2 How Can an “Encyclopedia” Be So Engrossing? | The River, Scroll 5 Yang Zhao to Graduates: Make the Effort “Not to Play the Same Tune as the Times” 4.3 Opening the Question: Why Annotate The Water Classic? | Original Preface 4.4 Annotation Fanatic Li Daoyuan: A Dozen Books to Explain One Word, “River” | The River, Scroll 1, Part 1 4.5 What Cultural Meanings Lie behind the Yellow River? | The River, Scroll 1, Part 2 4.6 Follow “Guide Li” on a Paper Journey along the Ganges | The River, Scroll 1, Part 3 4.7 How Many Buddhist Miracles Line the Ganges? | The River, Scroll 1, Part 4 4.8 Lion's Roar, Dragon Fountain, Seven-Foot Tree, Seven Footprints: Earthly Legends of the Buddha | The River, Scroll 1, Part 5 4.9 Rivers and the Dramas along Their Banks | The River, Scroll 5 4.10 Textual Scholarship: How Many Great Scholars Did Commentary on the Water Classic Turn into Obsessive Researchers? 5.1 Why Do Buddhist Sutras Belong among the “Chinese Classics”? 5.2 Chinese and Foreign Translations, China and India, Mahayana and Theravada: Contests within the Vimalakirti Sutra 5.3 What Is Special about Vimalakirti as Protagonist? | Skillful Means 1 5.4 Feigning Illness and Discussing the Body: Skillful Means in Practice | Skillful Means 2 5.5 From Illusory Body to Awakened Mind: Where Does Buddhist Practice Begin? | Skillful Means 3 5.6 Vimalakirti Teaches the Buddha's Disciples: How Is Dharma Practiced and Explained? | Disciples 1 5.7 Subtract and Make No Distinctions: Vimalakirti vs. Maudgalyayana and Mahakasyapa | Disciples 2 5.8 Is Vimalakirti So Formidable That Even Bodhisattvas Fear Visiting Him? | Disciples 3; Words on All Dharmas 1 5.9 Following the Moment and Turning Inward: Manjusri Meets Vimalakirti | Words on All Dharmas 2 5.10 Where Is the Wisdom of the Mahayana Bodhisattva Path Revealed? | Words on All Dharmas 3 6.1 Why Could Buddhism Take Root in Chinese Society? 6.2 Mystery-Mongering and Immortality: Society and Buddhism's Hidden Rise in the Northern and Southern Dynasties 6.3 What Virtues Did a “High Monk” Need in China? 6.4 Seeing a Thousand Miles and Foretelling the Future: Fotudeng's Miraculous Powers | Miracles 1 6.5 Teaching through Supernatural Power: How Did Fotudeng Influence a Tyrant? | Miracles 2 6.6 What Larger Purpose Lay behind Fotudeng's Imperial Connections? | Miracles 3 6.7 Miracles of Meditation: Subduing Mountain Spirits and Preserving the Body | Practicing Meditation 1 6.8 Do Monks' Miracles Reconcile Chinese and Indian Views of Life and Death? | Practicing Meditation 2 6.9 From Subduing Spirits to Gathering Followers: How Did Monks Threaten Political Power? | Practicing Meditation 3 6.10 The Murder of Shi Xuangao: The Dark Side of Monks' Imperial Relations | Practicing Meditation 4 7.1 Record of Luoyang's Monasteries: Luoyang's Fleeting Splendor 7.2 Why Write about Temples? Past Prosperity “Lest It Go Unrecorded” | Preface 7.3 A Staggeringly Luxurious Pagoda and Incredible Buddhist Ceremonies | Yongning Temple 1 7.4 What Opulent Prose Is Worthy of Opulent Yongning Temple? | Yongning Temple 2 7.5 How Did Chaotic Imperial Succession Connect with the Great Monastery? | Yongning Temple 3 7.6 Brothers or Political Rivals? A Softly Worded “Family Letter” Concealing a Blade | Yongning Temple 4 7.7 Recording History and Place beyond Northern Wei and Luoyang | Yongning Temple 5 7.8 Loyalty and Betrayal: The Yuan and Erzhu Families | Yongning Temple 6; Xuanzhong Temple 7.9 The Style of Supernatural Tales, a Collection of Wonders | Chongzhen Temple; Datong Temple 7.10 Old School Steles, Two Women Fighting over a Husband, Southerners Becoming Northern: Temple Notebook Tales | Baode Temple; Zhengjue Temple 8.1 Reciting Sutras: How Buddhism Changed Chinese Relations with Language and Writing 8.2 Infinity and Dependent Origination: From Arabic Numerals to Buddhism's Core 8.3 The Sutras' “Lists”: A Technique for Revealing Rebirth and Infinity 8.4 From Monastic to Bodhisattva: How Do Their Realms Differ? | Introduction 1 8.5 Countless Listeners and Wondrous Buddha-Light | Introduction 2 8.6 Maitreya's Verse-Question: What Must Be Learned and Relinquished to Enter New Realms? | Introduction 3 8.7 Manjusri Answers: Buddha-Light Shines to Aid Understanding | Introduction 4 8.8 Three Goods, Four Truths, Twelve Links, Six Perfections: Complete Buddhahood and Wisdom beyond Affliction | Introduction 5 8.9 Metanarrative: Overlapping Times and Assemblies | Introduction 6 8.10 Was the Famous Maitreya Greedy for Money and Fame? | Introduction 7 8.11 Why Does the Buddha Use Skillful Means and Then Break Them Down? | Skillful Means 1 8.12 What Four Stages Does Practice of the Lotus Sutra Require? | Skillful Means 2 8.13 No Stages, Only One Vehicle: The Lotus Sutra's Fundamental Teaching | Skillful Means 3 8.14 Scripture and Terminology: Where Is Buddhist Wisdom Found? | Skillful Means 4; Parable of the Medicinal Herbs 1 8.15 The Pure Dharma-Rain: Buddhism Nourishes All Herbs Equally | Parable of the Medicinal Herbs 2 9.1 Buddhist Treatises: Where Does the Book Come From and Where Does It Lead? 9.2 The Mind of Sentient Beings: Encompassing Worldly and Transcendent Dharmas 9.3 Thinking by Reversal and Negation: What Is “Suchness”? | Explanation 1 9.4 The Seed Storehouse: Alaya Consciousness Contains and Produces All Dharmas | Explanation 2 9.5 What Categories and Levels of “Awakening” Exist in Buddhism? | Explanation 3 9.6 Why Are People Always Troubled by Deluded Thoughts? | Explanation 4 9.7 How Can Cause and Effect and Ultimate Reality Be Understood from Different Angles? | Explanation 5 9.8 How Does “Non-Awakening” Lead Step by Step into Suffering? | Explanation 6 9.9 How Do We Discern Consciousness, Recognize Illusion, and Return to Nirvana? | Explanation 7 9.10 What Does the Answer at the Ultimate Realm Look Like? 10.1 How Did Buddhism Become Localized Step by Step? 10.2 What Did Competition with Hinduism Bring to Early Buddhism? 10.3 Can Buddhist Scriptures Depart from the Buddha's Intent? 10.4 Is Becoming a Buddha Difficult or Easy? 10.5 “Bodhisattva Stages”: How Does a Person Practice Step by Step into Bodhisattvahood? 10.6 What Can One Experience after Becoming a Bodhisattva? | Entering the Dharma Realm 1 10.7 Seeking Teachers, Asking Meaning, Practicing: Sudhana's Pilgrimage | Entering the Dharma Realm 2 10.8 How Should We Read the Ever-Accumulating Avatamsaka Sutra? | Entering the Dharma Realm 3 10.9 “Gates of Liberation” and the Tathagata's Ten Powers: Why Is the Buddha-Land So Appealing? | Entering the Dharma Realm 4 10.10 “The Gate of Recollecting the Buddha”: No Need to Seek, for Buddha Is Everywhere | Entering the Dharma Realm 5 10.11 Different Charms: The Wise Monk Sagaramegha and a Wealthy Laywoman | Entering the Dharma Realm 6 10.12 The Laywoman's Estate: How Extravagant Can Buddhist Scripture Be in Describing Splendor? | Entering the Dharma Realm 7 10.13 What Special Practices Does the Laywoman Asha Follow? | Entering the Dharma Realm 8 10.14 Why Does a Bodhisattva Awaken the Mind of Enlightenment? | Entering the Dharma Realm 9 10.15 Practice, Compassion, and Transcendence: Central Teachings of the Avatamsaka Sutra (Finale) Bonus | “Early Buddhism” and “Chinese Buddhism”: Are Chinese Speakers Bad at Studying Buddhism? Bonus | Kyoto, Paris, Rome, and Luoyang: What Has Time Left Here? Bonus | “Family Instructions” for a Daughter: How Can One Be Both Free and Steadfast?