Foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson
Preface to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
On the Illustrations
1. Introduction
2. Zhuhong's Life and Major Works
3. Zhuhong and the Joint Practice of Pure Land and Chan
4. Zhuhong and the Late Ming Lay Buddhist Movement
5. Syncretism in Action: Morality Books and The Record of Self-knowledge
6. The Condition of the Monastic Order in the Late Ming
7. Internal Causes of Monastic Decline in the Ming Dynasty
8. Zhuhong's Monastic Reform: The Yunqi Monastery
9. Conclusion
Appendix 1. A Translation of The Record of Self-knowledge
Appendix 2. Personnel at Yunqi and Their Duties
Appendix 3. Regulations Regarding Good Deeds and Punishments at Yunqi
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Chün-fang Yü is Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Kuan-yin, the Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Columbia, 2001), Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan (2013), and Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History (2020). She is the former editor of the Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies at Columbia University Press.