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| | Chan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Chan (Chinese 禪) is traditionally held to be a Chinese adaptation of Indian dhyana meditation practices, and is also often said to be influenced by indigenous Chinese Taoism. |
 | | According this view, Chan was a reaction to a perceived imbalance in Chinese Buddhism toward the blind pursuit of textual scholarship with a concomitant neglect of the original essence of Buddhist practice: meditation and the cultivation of right view. |
 | | During the late Tang and the Song periods, the tradition truly flowered, as a wide number of eminent teachers, such as Mazu, Baizhang, and Linji developed specialized teaching methods, which would become characteristic of each of the "" of mature Chinese Chan. |
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