Chan insights and oversights

an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition

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Chan insights and oversights

an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
322

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Chan Insights and Oversights
November 11, 1996, Princeton University Press
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Chan insights and oversights: an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition
1993, Princeton University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-315) and index.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
294.3/927
Library of Congress
BQ4440 .F38 1993, BQ4440.F38 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
322 p. ;
Number of pages
322

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1732486M
Internet Archive
chaninsightsover0000faur
ISBN 10
0691069484
LCCN
92037150
OCLC/WorldCat
26974460
Library Thing
378851
Goodreads
4466697

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"WESTERN attitudes toward Chinese and Japanese religions were formed largely from the descriptions given by Christian missionaries to those countries."

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