The Rhetoric of Immediacy by 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. This title focuses on Chan's insistence on 'immediacy' - its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works.
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992 "Not since DT. Suzuki (1870-1966) has any responsible scholar attempted in English to synthesize such a broad stretch of the history of Zen Buddhism as has Bernard Faure... [The book] offers the best narration in English of the role that magicians, healers, jesters, relics, mummies, dreams, funerals, deities, and mundane rituals play in a tradition that lays claim to emptiness."--Stephen F. Teiser, Journal of Religion "Readers will be rewarded by truly insightful vistas of bottomless chasms and distant peaks, flowering puns and mutant etymologies, stunning flights of free association, and encounters with many species of exotic facts, not to mention the tracks and droppings of latter-day giants of social-historical theory."--Monumenta Nipponica
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691029634 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691029636 |
| Title | The Rhetoric of Immediacy |
| Author | Bernard Faure |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1994-12-04 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1992 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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