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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
1991
ISBN
0691073740
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17250103 bytes)
Pages
408\408
Time added
2020-11-06 18:13:56
BuddhismchanChinaPhilosophyReligionzen

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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