The Resource Chan insights and oversights : an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition, Bernard Faure
Chan insights and oversights : an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition, Bernard Faure
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- Summary
- 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. --Publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691069487
- Label
- Chan insights and oversights : an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition
- Title
- Chan insights and oversights
- Title remainder
- an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition
- Statement of responsibility
- Bernard Faure
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. --Publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Faure, Bernard
- Dewey number
- 294.3/927
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BQ4440
- LC item number
- .F38 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism)
- Hermeneutics
- Zen Buddhism
- Zen Buddhism
- Label
- Chan insights and oversights : an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition, Bernard Faure
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 26974460
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691069487
- Lccn
- 92037150
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- Label
- Chan insights and oversights : an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition, Bernard Faure
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 26974460
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691069487
- Lccn
- 92037150
- Media category
- unmediated
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