The Rhetoric of Immediacy
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The Rhetoric of Immediacy

A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

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The Rhetoric of Immediacy

A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

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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.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781400844265
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Buddhism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Prologue
  9. Chapter One. The Differential Tradition
  10. Chapter Two. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm
  11. Chapter Three. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy
  12. Chapter Four. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s)
  13. Chapter Five. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (I)
  14. Chapter Six. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (II)
  15. Chapter Seven. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics
  16. Chapter Eight. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): “Sublime Corpses” and Icons
  17. Chapter Nine. The Ritualization of Death
  18. Chapter Ten. Dreams Within a Dream
  19. Chapter Eleven. Digression: The Limits of Transgression
  20. Chapter Twelve. The Return of the Gods
  21. Chapter Thirteen. Ritual Antiritualism
  22. Epilogue
  23. Glossary
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index