Chan Insights and Oversights
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Ambiguity
Antinomianism
Author_Bernard Faure
Bhikkhu
Bodhidharma
Bodhisattva
Buddhism
Buddhism in Japan
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Chan Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism
Christianity
Confucianism
Confucius
Criticism
D. T. Suzuki
Demythologization
Dialectic
Dichotomy
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Esoteric Buddhism
Fusion of horizons
Hagiography
Heresy
Hermeneutics
Heterodoxy
Historicity
Historiography
Hu Shih
Huineng
Ideology
Impermanence
Individualism
Jacques Derrida
Japanese Zen
Keizan
Kyoto School
Laozi
Martin Heidegger
Mazu Daoyi
Monastery
Mysticism
Orientalism
Orthodoxy
Philosopher
Philosophy
Poetry
Prejudice
Princeton University Press
Quietism (Christian philosophy)
Religion
Religious text
Rhetoric
Sacred history
Sanskrit
Sect
Shenhui
Society of Jesus
Southern School
Spirituality
Subitism
Subjectivity
Superiority (short story)
Taoism
Theory
Tiantai
Treatise
Truth claim
Western philosophy
Western world
Writing
Zen master
Zhuangzi (book)
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029023
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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" discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought. Questioning the assumptions of "Easterners" as well, including those of the charismatic D. T. Suzuki, Faure demonstrates how both West and East have come to overlook significant components of a complex and elusive tradition. Throughout the book Faure reveals surprising hidden agendas in the modern enterprise of Chan studies and in Chan itself. After describing how Jesuit missionaries brought Chan to the West, he shows how the prejudices they engendered were influenced by the sectarian constraints of Sino-Japanese discourse. He then assesses structural, hermeneutical, and performative ways of looking at Chan, analyzes the relationship of Chan and local religion, and discusses Chan concepts of temporality, language, writing, and the self.
Read alone or with its companion volume, The Rhetoric of Immediacy, this work offers a critical introduction not only to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism but also to "theory" in the human sciences.
Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
