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Robert Bruce Zeuschner (1941-)

Zeuschner, Robert, “An Analysis of the Philosophical Criticisms of Northern Ch'an Buddhism,”
PhD dissertation, University of Hawaii, 1977.
Zeuschner tackles the longstanding charges by propagandist Shenhui of the “Southern School” of Chan Buddhism that the so-called “Northern School” of Shenxiu, et al., was quietist, dualistic, and teaching an inferior path of gradual enlightenment. Zeuschner shows how Shenhui and his Southern School were attached to “Absolute level” discourse (paramartha-satya) and the strict prajna-wisdom approach, whereas Shenxiu and his colleagues were more willing to use both Absolute-truth teachings and also pragmatic, compassionate, relative-truth teachings (samvrti-satya) as a form of upaya, skillful means, to help liberate fellow sentient beings. Zeuschner's dissertation, worth reading for anyone still confused on this point, is archived at
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/10044/uhm_phd_7801060_r.pdf?sequence=2

Zeuschner, Robert B.,
'The Understanding of Mind in the Northern Line of Ch'an (Zen),'
Philosophy East and West, V. 28, No. 1 (January 1978), pp. 69-79
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/HistoricalZen/Understanding_mind_in_NorthernChan.htm

Zeuschner, Robert B., 'The Meaning of 'Hīnayāna' in Northern Ch'an,'  
The Eastern Buddhist 11.1 (1978), 37-49

Zeuschner, Robert B., 'The Concept of li nien ('being free from thinking') in the Northern Line of Ch'an Buddhism,'
in: Early Ch'an in China and Tibet, ed. Whalen Lai and ed. Lewis Lancaster (Berkely: Asian Humanities Press, 1983), pp. 131-148.

Zeuschner, Robert B., The Understanding of Karma in Early Ch'an Buddhism
Journal of Chinese Philosophy , V. 8 (1981), pp. 399-425
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-JOCP/jc26722.htm

Zeuschner, Robert B., The Hsien-tsung chi (An Early Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist Text) by Shen-hui
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 3, Issue 3, pages 253–268, June 1976
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-JOCP/jc26898.htm

The 顯宗記 Hsien Tsung Chi [Illuminating the Essential Doctrine] is one of the most philosophically important of the writings of the Ch'an master Ho-tse Shen-hui (670-762), a disciple of the Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng.

A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CH'AN BUDDHISM IN CHINA
By Robert B. Zeuschner (1976)
http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-JOCP/jc26894.htm

Zeuschner, Robert B., 'Awakening in Northern Ch'an,'
in: Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society, ed. David W. Chappell (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1987 (85-108)
(Buddhist and Taoist Studies; 2)