Shifting Shape, Shaping Text : : Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan / / Steven Heine.
According to the fox koan, the second case in the Wu-men kuan koan collection, Zen master Pai-chang encounters a fox who claims to be a former abbot punished through endless reincarnations for denying the efficacy of karmic causality. In the end he is liberated by Pai-chang's turning word, whic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part One. Shape-Shifting
- 1. Putting the Fox Back in the Fox Kōan
- 2. The Kōan’s Multivalent Discursive Structure
- Part Two. Text-Shaping
- 3. Philosophical Paradigm of Paradoxicality
- 4. Deep Faith in Causality
- 5. Folklore Morphology and the Issue of Repentance
- 6. Unconcluding Methodological Reflections
- Appendix I. Translations of Fox Kōan Commentaries
- Appendix II. Translation of “Pai-chang’s Monastic Rules
- List of Sino-Japanese Terms
- Bibliography
- Index