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The rhetoric of immediacy: a cultural critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

·1992·Choice Reviews Online
DOI 10.5860/choice.29-6238
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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.

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Venue
Choice Reviews Online
Publisher
American Library Association
Published
1992-07-01
Volume
29
Issue
11
Pages
29-6238-29-6238
ISSN
  • 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
  • 1523-8253
DOI
10.5860/choice.29-6238
OpenAlex
W1499476049
Cited by
141
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0
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 13
Type
book review
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Choice Reviews Online (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
Keywords
Zen Buddhism, immediacy, mediation (cultural/media theory), sudden and gradual enlightenment, center and margin, Buddhist doctrine, Buddhist practice, metaphor, Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism

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