The Rhetoric of Immediacy

A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

Bernard Faure (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

420 Seiten

1991
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-07374-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Bernard Faure, Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, is the author of Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition (Princeton).

Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	197 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-691-07374-0 / 0691073740
ISBN-13	978-0-691-07374-3 / 9780691073743
Zustand	Neuware