Chongxuan
Chongxuan (Chinese 重 玄宗 chongxuan zong or 重 玄 派 chongxuan pai "School of the Double Secret" / "School of the Double Mystery"; English Twofold Mystery School ) is a school of Daoism , the name of which comes from a passage in the first chapter of Daodejing is inspired and at the center of which are the writings Daodejing (the legendary Laozi) and Zhuangzi . Its most important representatives are Cheng Xuanying ( 成玄英 ) and Li Rong ( 李榮 / 李荣 ). In it has been a concern with the concept of emptiness at the center and there were teachings of Madhyamaka , a philosophical school of Mahayana - Buddhism , assimilated. The direction was particularly influential in the early Tang Dynasty , especially under Emperor Xuanzong ( 玄宗 ).
literature
- Friederike Assandri: The Debates Between Daoists and Buddhists in the Early Tang Dynasty and the Chongxuan Teachings of Daoism . Dissertation Heidelberg 2002.
- Isabelle Robinet : History of Taoism . Diederichs, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-424-01298-X .
- Shiyi Yu: Reading the "Chuang-tzu" in the T'ang dynasty. The commentary of Ch'eng Hsüan-ying (fl. 631-652) . ISBN 0-8204-4554-1 , Lang, New York NY et al. 2000, ISBN 0-8204-4554-1 ( Asian thought and culture 39; also: Boulder CO, Univ., Diss., 1998).