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

By Bernard Faure

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781400844265
DOI
10.1515/9781400844265
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29158253 bytes)
Pages
416\416
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-25 17:04:39

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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