The Rhetoric of Immediacy : A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism / Bernard Faure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faure, Bernard, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zen Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.) : 5 halftones 4 line drawings

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prologue

Chapter One. The Differential Tradition

Chapter Two. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm

Chapter Three. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy

Chapter Four. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s)

Chapter Five. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (I)

Chapter Six. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (II)

Chapter Seven. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics

Chapter Eight. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): "Sublime Corpses" and Icons

Chapter Nine. The Ritualization of Death

Chapter Ten. Dreams Within a Dream

Chapter Eleven. Digression: The Limits of Transgression

Chapter Twelve. The Return of the Gods

Chapter Thirteen. Ritual Antiritualism

Epilogue

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Errata

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

ISBN:

9781400844265

1400844266

OCLC:

1257324872