Rhetoric of Immediacy

Rhetoric of Immediacy

EnglishPaperback / softback
Faure Bernard
Princeton University Press
EAN: 9780691029634
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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.
EAN 9780691029634
ISBN 0691029636
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Publication date December 3, 1994
Pages 416
Language English
Dimensions 254 x 197
Country United States
Authors Faure Bernard
Illustrations 5 halftones 4 line drawings
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