| The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism Revised Edition Contributor(s): Faure, Bernard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691029636 ISBN-13: 9780691029634 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1994 Annotation: Exploring key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides readers to an appreciation of some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese traditions of Chan Buddhism and Japanese Zen. Faure focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional meditations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) - Philosophy | Zen |
| Dewey: 294.392 |
| LCCN: 09111746 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.08" W x 9.02" (1.41 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |