Chan Insights and Oversights : : An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition /

Chan Insights and Oversights : : An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition / / Bernard Faure.

For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, he challenges this inversion of traditional "Orientalist"...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Faure, Bernard,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1993
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE
  • CHAPTER ONE Chan/Zen in the Western Imagination
  • CHAPTER TWO The Rise of Zen Orientalism
  • CHAPTER THREE Rethinking Chan Historiography
  • CHAPTER FOUR Alternatives
  • PART TWO
  • CHAPTER FIVE Space and Place
  • CHAPTER SIX Times and Tides
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Chan and Language: Fair and Unfair Games
  • CHAPTER EIGHT In-scribing/De-scribing Chan
  • CHAPTER NINE The Paradoxes of Chan Individualism
  • EPILOGUE
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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