The Rhetoric of Immediacy : : A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism / / Bernard Faure.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Faure, Bernard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 5 halftones 4 line drawings
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Prologue --; Chapter One. The Differential Tradition --; Chapter Two. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm --; Chapter Three. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy --; Chapter Four. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s) --; Chapter Five. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (I) --; Chapter Six. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (II) --; Chapter Seven. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics --; Chapter Eight. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): "Sublime Corpses" and Icons --; Chapter Nine. The Ritualization of Death --; Chapter Ten. Dreams Within a Dream --; Chapter Eleven. Digression: The Limits of Transgression --; Chapter Twelve. The Return of the Gods --; Chapter Thirteen. Ritual Antiritualism --; Epilogue --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; Errata
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400844265; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400844265?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bernard Faure.

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.