Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context
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Abbot's Portrait
Abbot’s Portrait
bernard
Bodhisattva Kannon
Bodhisattva Precepts
Buddhist ritual practice
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Chan Lineage
Chan Master
Chan Monasteries
Chan Monks
Chan Patriarch
chinese
dharma
Dharma Heir
Dharma Transmission
East Asian religious studies
eminent
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faure
Gaoseng Zhuan
Headquarter Temples
Herbal Pill
icon veneration
Living Buddha
Local Kami
master
monastic robe symbolism
monks
Portrait Halls
Precept Ordinations
Pure Land
Pure Land Teaching
relic cults Buddhism
ritual context in Chan studies
Teaching Gate
temple
transmission
Waseda University
zen
Zen historiography
Zen Monks
Zen Movement
Zen School
Zen Temple
Product details
- ISBN 9780415297486
- Weight: 770g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular, they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their claim to uniqueness, were indebted to larger trends in East Asian Buddhism, such as the cults of icons, relics and the monastic robe.
The book emphasises the importance of ritual for a proper understanding of this allegedly anti-ritualistic form of Buddhism. In doing so, it deconstructs the Chan/Zen 'rhetoric of immediacy' and its ideological underpinnings.
Bernard Faure is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University and Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies. His publications include The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism (1991), Chan Insights and Oversights: A Phenomenological Critique of the Chan/Zen Tradition (1993), Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism (1996) and The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism (1997).
