Name: Chan Insights and Oversights (en Inglés)
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Author: Bernard Faure
ISBN: 9780691029023

portada Chan Insights and Oversights (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Autor

Bernard Faure

Año

1996

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0691029024

ISBN13

9780691029023

Categorías

Budismo

Chan Insights and Oversights (en Inglés)

Bernard Faure (Autor) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.