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

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

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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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Main Author: Faure, Bernard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1996.
Edition:2. printing, 1. paperback printing.
Series:Princeton paperbacks
Online Access:CONNECT
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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