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The Rhetoric of Immediacy

By Bernard Faure

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
978-0691029634
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20663015 bytes)
Pages
415\415
Topic
Religion\\Buddhism
Time added
2019-11-26 10:37:25
BuddhismCritical TheoryCultural StudiesDeconstructionliterary theory,Religion

Description

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.

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