The Rhetoric of Immediacy (eBook)

A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

Bernard Faure (Autor)

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2021
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4426-5 (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 "e;immediacy"e;--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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones 4 line drawings
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Absolute (philosophy) • acosmologism • Ambiguity • Ambivalence • anamnesis • Aniruddha • An Lushan Rebellion • anticlericalism • Antinomianism • Apotheosis • Arhat • Arhatship • Asceticism • Avalokitesvara • Baotang school • Berger and Luckmann • Bhikkhu • Bodhi • Bodhidharma • Bodhisattva • Bodhisattva Precepts • body-mind dualism • budai • Buddhahood • Buddhism • Calligraphy • Caoxi • Ceremony • Chan Buddhism • Chan Wing-tsit • chigo monogatari • Chinese Buddhism • Confucianism • Confucius • cremation • Dadian • Dahui Zonggao • Daoist priest • Daoxin • Deconstruction • deity • Demythologization • Dialectic • dichotomy • Differentiation • diffused religion • Distinction • Doctrine • Dokuan Dokugo • D. T. Suzuki • dualism, doctrinal • Early Buddhism • embriology, Buddhist • Empress Wu • Emptiness • Ennin • eraser problem • esoteric Buddhism • Fine Art • flesh-bodies • folk religion • Fotudeng • Fumon Mukan • funerals • gantong • Gautama • Gautama Buddha • genesis amnesia • Gimello, Robert • Girardot, Norman • gradualism • Guanyin • Hagiography • hearing (in Chan) • Heresy • hermeneutics • heterodoxy • heterology • Hongaku • Hongzhou school • Huangbo Xiyun • Huian • huineng • Iconoclasm • Ideology • Illustration • imaginary • Immanence • impermanence • Jacques Derrida • Jigong • Keizan • Kirigami • Laity • Laozi • Layman Ding • Liminality • Literature • Mâdhyamika • Mazu Daoyi • Mazu (goddess) • Miaopu • Moheyan • Monastery • Monasticism • Ordination • Orthodoxy • Precept • Prediction • Proselytism • Puhua • Qing homophobia • quietism • Relic • Religion • religious text • Rite • ritualization • Rujing • Sacred • Sangha • Schools of Buddhism • sect • Self-Immolation • Sengcan • Sermon • shenhui • Shingon Buddhism • Southern School • Stupa • Subitism • Superiority (short story) • Syncretism • Tantra • Taoism • tendai • Thaumaturgy • the monastery • The Other Hand • Tiantai • Trickster • Tutelary deity • Vinaya • Writing • zen master • Zhiyi
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4426-6 / 1400844266
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4426-5 / 9781400844265