02768nam 2200553 450 991078683840332120200520144314.01-61146-157-X(CKB)3710000000107708(EBL)1684635(SSID)ssj0001196478(PQKBManifestationID)12554217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196478(PQKBWorkID)11166267(PQKB)10132568(MiAaPQ)EBC1684635(Au-PeEL)EBL1684635(CaPaEBR)ebr10869651(CaONFJC)MIL604687(OCoLC)879551044(EXLCZ)99371000000010770820140521h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrZen and the White Whale a Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick /Daniel HermanLanham, Maryland :Lehigh University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (235 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61146-166-9 1-61146-156-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; I: Melville's Encounters with Buddhism; 1 The Prologue to Buddhist Studies; 2 A Universal Absorber; 3 Bayle's Dictionary; 4 Possibilities and Probabilities; 5 Mardi and Other Mysteries; II: Ishmael's Way-Seeking Mind; 6 Groundlessness; 7 Narcissus and Dongshan; 8 Searching for Ishmael; 9 Whaling Life, Monastic Life; 10 Ishmael's Meditation; 11 Impermanence and Interdependence; 12 Philosophy, Koans, and Silence; III: Moby Dick's Inscrutable Selflessness; 13 Sarcastic Science; 14 The First Principle of All Things; 15 Whiteness; 16 The Measurements of the Whale Skeleton17 Ox-HerdingIV: Captain Ahab's Universe; 18 A Factionalized Consciousness; 19 Savagery Beyond Savagery; 20 Faith and the Three Mates; 21 The Doubloon; 22 Pip, Who Jumped from the Whale-Boat; 23 Ahab's Awakening; 24 Pacific; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorZen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick examines how Herman Melville's Moby-Dick may have been influenced by contemporaneous sources of information about Buddhist thought and considers the book from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings.Zen Buddhism in literatureZen Buddhism in literature.813/.3Herman Daniel1980-1470410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786838403321Zen and the White Whale3682220UNINA