Visions of Power (eBook)

Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Bernard Faure (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21956-1 (ISBN)

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Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Although Faure's new book may be read at one level as an intellectual biography, Keizan is portrayed here less as an original thinker than as a representative of his culture and an example of the paradoxes of the Soto school. The Chan/Zen doctrine that he avowed was allegedly reasonable and demythologizing, but he lived in a psychological world that was just as imbued with the marvelous as was that of his contemporary Dante Alighieri. Drawing on his own dreams to demonstrate that he possessed the magical authority that he felt to reside also in icons and relics, Keizan strove to use these "e;visions of power"e; to buttress his influence as a patriarch. To reveal the historical, institutional, ritual, and visionary elements in Keizan's life and thought and to compare these to Soto doctrine, Faure draws on largely neglected texts, particularly the Record of Tokoku (a chronicle that begins with Keizan's account of the origins of the first of the monasteries that he established) and the kirigami, or secret initiation documents.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Übersetzer: Phyllis Brooks
• Zusatzinfo: 5 line drawings
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: acolyte • Allusion • Ānanda • Anecdote • Aniconism • Arhat • Asceticism • Aśvaghoṣa • Barthes, Roland • Bassui Tokusho • Bhikkhu • Bodhidharma • Bodhisattva • Bodhisattva Precepts • Buddhahood • Buddhism • Buddhism in Japan • Buddhist cosmology • Ceremony • Certeau, Michel de • Chogen • Christian monasticism • Circumambulation • Confucianism • consecration • cremation • Daigenshuri • Daijōji • deity • Dharmachakra • Dharma transmission • dhdrani • Dongshan Liangjie • dragon king • eikan • Emblem • Ennin • esoteric Buddhism • Exorcism • Fetishism • Filial Piety • Five Elders • Foucault, Michel • Four Gates • Gien • gradualism • Guanyin • Hachiman • Hagiography • Hakusan • Han Yu • Hinduism • Hirata Atsutane • huineng • Iconoclasm • Ideology • Imaginaire • Immanence • Jacques Derrida • Japanese Zen • Jidian • Kakunyo • kechimyaku • Kegon • Keizan • Kshitigarbha • Laity • lay adepts • Literature • Longevity • Maitreya • manjala • Mannoni, Octave • Marcel Mauss • Mauss, Marcel • Metonymy • Monastery • Monasticism • Mummy • Nabokov, Vladimir • officiant • okibumi • Ordination • Orthodoxy • Otherworld • Pei Xiu • Postulant • Prayer • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Puji • Ratnakuta-sûtra • recitation • Reincarnation • Relic • Religion • religious text • reliquary • Rite • Ritual purification • Rujing • sacred springs • Samantabhadra • Sanskrit • Schools of Buddhism • sect • Seizan • Semantic Field • Sermon • shenhui • Shingon Buddhism • Shinran • Shungi • Shunjō • Sixteen Arhats • Stupa • Subitism • Superiority (short story) • Symbols • Syncretism • Tambiah, Stanley • Tantra • Taoism • the monastery • theory • The Other Hand • Thought • Tiantai • Tutelary deity • Uttarakuru • Vajraputra (Arhat) • Veneration of the dead • Vinaya • Vulture Peak • Weber, Max • Wittgenstein, Ludwig • Writing • Xiangguosi • Yijingy • Yin and Yang • zen master • Zhiyi
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21956-7 / 0691219567
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21956-1 / 9780691219561