[PDF.76sc] The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

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 | #2358659 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1994-11-14 |  1994-12-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.04 x6.00l,1.41 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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"Not since D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966) has any responsible scholar attempted in English to synthesize such a broad stretch of the history of Zen Buddhism as has Bernard Faure.... [The b

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 disc...

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