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Andy Ferguson

    Andy Ferguson richt zich op auteurs wiens werken diep geworteld zijn in de Chinese cultuur en geschiedenis. Zijn schrijven onderzoekt de ingewikkelde relaties tussen individuen en de bredere samenleving, waarbij vaak thema's als identiteit, traditie en modernisering worden verkend. Ferguson's analytische aanpak onthult de nuances van het Chinese literaire en culturele leven en biedt lezers inzichtelijke perspectieven op het steeds evoluerende landschap van deze beschaving. Zijn literaire verkenningen dragen bij aan een dieper begrip van China door middel van zijn belangrijkste vertellers.

    Tracking Bodhidharma
    • Tracking Bodhidharma

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      The life of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, has, with the passing of time, been magnified to the scale of myth, turning history into the stuff of legend. Known as the First Patriarch, Bodhidharma brought Zen from South India into China in 500 CE, changing the country forever. In Tracking Bodhidharma, Andrew Ferguson recreates the path of Bodhidharma, traveling through China to the places where the First Patriarch lived and taught. This sacred trail takes Ferguson deep into ancient China, and allows him to explore the origins of Chan [Zen] Buddhism, the cultural aftermath that Bodhidharma left in his wake, and the stories of a man who shaped a civilization. Tracking Bodhidharma offers a previously unheard perspective on the life of Zen's most important religious leader, while simultaneously showing how that history is relevant to the rapidly developing super–power that is present–day China. By placing Zen Buddhism within the country's political landscape, Ferguson presents the religion as a counterpoint to other Buddhist sects, a catalyst for some of the most revolutionary moments in China's history, and as the ancient spiritual core of a country that is every day becoming more an emblem of the modern era.

      Tracking Bodhidharma