A01=Bernard Faure
Absolute (philosophy)
Ambiguity
Ambivalence
Antinomianism
Apotheosis
Arhat
Asceticism
Author_Bernard Faure
Bodhidharma
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva Precepts
Buddhism
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Chan Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism
Confucianism
Confucius
Cremation
D. T. Suzuki
Dahui Zonggao
Deity
Demythologization
Dichotomy
Doctrine
Early Buddhism
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Folk religion
Gautama Buddha
Gradualism
Guanyin
Hagiography
Heresy
Hongaku
Huineng
Iconoclasm
Ideology
Illustration
Immanence
Impermanence
Keizan
Liminality
Literature
Mazu (goddess)
Monastery
Ordination
Orthodoxy
Prediction
Proselytism
Puhua
Relic
Religion
Religious text
Rite
Ritualization
Rujing
Schools of Buddhism
Sect
Sermon
Shenhui
Stupa
Subitism
Superiority (short story)
Syncretism
Taoism
Tendai
Thaumaturgy
The Other Hand
Tiantai
Trickster
Vinaya
Writing
Zen master
Zhiyi
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029634
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Bernard Faure, Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, is the author of Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition (Princeton).
