The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism
Bernard FaureThrough a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals how Chan structures its practice and doctrine on such mental paradigms as mediacy/immediacy, sudden/gradual, and center/margins.
Năm:
2021
Nhà xuát bản:
Princeton University Press
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
416
ISBN 10:
1400844266
ISBN 13:
9781400844265
File:
PDF, 27.81 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2021