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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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