| Description |
322 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Chan insights and oversights : an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition / Bernard Faure. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 3 Chan as Secondary Orientalism 5 The Cultural "Encounter Dialogue" 9 Comparison, Counterpoint, Intertwining 10 Ch. 1 Chan/Zen in the Western Imagination 15 Missionary Accounts 15 Buddhism and Quietism 29 Chan and Indian Mysticism 34 The Apostle Bodhidharma 45 Claudel and Buddhism 50 Ch. 2 The Rise of Zen Orientalism 52 Suzuki's Zen 53 The Western Critics of Suzuki 67 Nishida and the Kyoto School 74 Ch. 3 Rethinking Chan Historiography 89 Places and People 92 The Rise of Chan Historiography in Japan 99 The Cost of Objectivism 110 The Teleological Fallacy 114 Writing Chan History 123 Ch. 4 Alternatives 126 The Structural Approach 126 The Hermeneutic Approach 135 Toward a Performative Scholarship 145 Ch. 5 Space and Place 155 Chan and Local Spirits 156 From Place to Space 159 Chan In-sights and Di-visions 167 Ch. 6 Times and Tides 175 Conflicting Models 177 Dogen and His Times 187 The Ritualization of Time 192 Ch. 7 Chan and Language: Fair and Unfair Games 195 On the Way to Language 199 Poetical Language in Chan 205 How to Do Things with the Koan 211 Ch. 8 In-scribing/De-scribing Chan 217 A Qualified Anti-intellectualism 217 Chan Logocentrism 220 Orality in Chan 228 Chan as a Kind of Writing 233 Another Differend 234 Chan Rhetoric 237 Ch. 9 The Paradoxes of Chan Individualism 243 The Western Configuration of the Self 243 Early Buddhist Conceptions 251 Chinese Conceptions 254 The Individual and Power 257 Solitaire/Solidaire 261 Epilogue 269 Glossary 275 Bibliography 281 Index 317 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism) Hermeneutics Religious aspects Zen Buddhism, Zen Buddhism Study and teaching, Zen Buddhism Doctrines |
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Zen Buddhism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-315) and index |
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Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Zen Buddhism
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Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism)
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Zen Buddhism -- Doctrines.
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Zen Buddhism -- Study and teaching.
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| LC no. |
92037150 |
| ISBN |
0691069484 |
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