By Eden Collinsworth
A interesting fusion of memoir, manners, and cultural historical past from a profitable businesswoman good versed within the distinct demanding situations of operating in modern China.
During the process a profession that has, really literarily, moved her all over the world, no nation has involved Eden Collinsworth greater than China, the place she has borne witness to its profound transformation. After a number of stories there that will top be referred to as "unusual" via Western criteria, she concluded that regardless of China's growing to be prestige as an international economic system, businessmen in mainland China have been essentially uncomfortable within the corporation in their Western opposite numbers. This cognizance spawned an concept to paintings collaboratively with a big chinese language writer on a Western etiquette advisor, which went directly to turned a bestseller and triggered a department of China's Ministry of schooling to signify that she create a curriculum for the varsity process. In I Stand Corrected, Collinsworth tells the interesting and insightful tale of the 12 months she spent dwelling one of the chinese language whereas writing a publication that includes suggestion on such themes because the non-negotiable factor of non-public hygiene, the foundations of the handshake, and making feel of foreigners. Scrutinizing the type of etiquette that has guided her personal company profession, one that has spread out in predominately male corporation, Collinsworth creates a counterpart that explains chinese language practices and divulges a lot approximately our personal Western tradition. while, I Stand Corrected is a wry yet self-effacing mirrored image at the peripatetic occupation she led whereas single-handedly elevating her son, and the following she information the customarily madcap makes an attempt to strike a stability that used to be correct for them either.
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The account is meant to promote Baolin Monastery at Caoqi, where Huineng supposedly taught. For our purposes, the Biography of the Great Teacher of Caoqi demonstrates the important variations in the biography of Huineng and the influence of local Buddhist politics on the development of the emerging Chan tradition. The Caoqi biography emphasizes the role of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra (not the Diamond Sūtra), and there is no mention of a poetry contest or Shenxiu. The rest of the account is about the relationship of Baolin Monastery and its master, Huineng, with the imperial court.
Teiser and Jacqueline I. , Readings of the Lotus Sūtra, Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). For an explication of Yogācāra, partly informed by the Japanese tradition, see Tagawa Shun’ei, Living Yogacara: An Introduction to Consciousness-Only Buddhism (Somerville, MA: Wisdom, 2009). See Francis. H. Cook, Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra, Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions (University Park: Pennsylvania State Univer- 10/28/11 1:05 PM introduction: the platform sūtra , buddhism, and chinese religion 23 21.
On the development of encounter dialogue, see John R. McRae, “The Antecedents of Encounter Dialogue in Chinese Ch’an Buddhism,” in The Kōan, 46–74. See Morten Schlütter, “Transmission and Enlightenment in Chan Buddhism Seen Through the Platform Sūtra (Liuzu tanjing),” Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 20 (2007): 379–410. 10/28/11 1:05 PM 2 the figure of huineng JO H N JO R GE N SEN T he biography of Huineng offered in the Platform Sūtra is a compelling story of a hero who perseveres against great odds.