The rhetoric of immediacy : a cultural critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism / / Bernard Faure

• Autore: Faure Bernard
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1994
• Edizione: 1st Princeton paperback, with corrections.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 400 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 294.3/927
• Soggetto topico: Zen Buddhism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-392) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- From Margins to Mediation -- Methodological Polytheism -- Chapter One. The Differential Tradition -- Six patriarchs in search of a tradition -- The Second Order -- An alienating tradition? -- Tradition as kinship -- Making a difference -- Chapter Two. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm -- The Semantic Field -- The Ideological (Dis)Content -- Phenomenological Analysis -- Point defuite? Variations on subitism -- The gradual perspective -- Chapter Three. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy -- Double trouble -- The "Naturalist Heresy -- Skillful Means -- The Means And The Ends -- The Chan denial of hierarchy -- The intermediary world -- Chapter Four. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s) -- A Theoretical Parenthesis -- Popular religion and its correlatives -- The East Asian Context -- From primitives to Zen, and conversely -- Chapter Five. The Thaumaturge and its Avatars (I) -- The Thaumaturge Tradition in China -- Demons et merveilles: Early Chan thaumaturges -- The vanishing mediator -- The Buddhist ambivalence toward thaumaturges -- The Domestication of The Thaumaturge -- Chapter Six. The Thaumaturge and its Avatars (II) -- The Emergence of The Trickster -- A bittersweet friendship -- On the margins of Chan -- Of madness as one of the fine arts -- The Bodhisattva Ideal -- The Return of The Thaumaturge -- Chapter Seven. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics -- The Cult of Sarika -- The Iconoclastic Reaction -- Chapter Eight. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): "Sublime Corpses" and Icons -- Chan "Flesh-Bodies -- The Semantic Evolution -- Bones of Contention -- Huineng's two bodies -- Dissemination of charisma and sectarianism -- Icons And Chinso -- Transmission or diffusion? -- Figures of the double. ; Chapter Nine. The Ritualization of Death -- The Chan Denial of Death And The Afterlife -- The funeral paradox -- The Ritual Domestication of Death -- Preliminaries -- The liminal stage: Chan funerary ritual -- From Defilement to Purity -- Chapter Ten. Dreams Within a Dream -- Methodological Caveat -- Asian Dreams -- The dream metaphor -- Dreaming in Chan/Zen -- Dreams and hagiography -- Dreaming Practice -- Myoe's Record of Dreams -- A realistic dreamer -- Dreams of ascent and voices of dissent -- Chapter Eleven. Digression: The Limits of Transgression -- Tales of Monastic Dereliction -- Chan/Zen Attitudes toward Sexuality -- Images In Women -- The rhetoric of equality -- Remarkable women -- Ikkyii and women -- Sodom And Gomorh -- The sword and the chrysanthemum -- Chapter Twelve. The Return of the Gods -- Militant Syncretism -- Chan/Zen Mythological Imagery -- The Cult of The Arhats -- Zen And The Kami -- Gods, ghosts, and ancestors -- Chapter Thirteen. Ritual Antiritualism -- Another Rite Controvers -- The Chan critique of ritualism -- Chan/Zen Liturgy -- incantatory Zen -- Ritual Omnipresent -- Meditation as ritual -- The ritualization of life -- Ritual As Ideology -- Ritual Mediation -- Epilogue -- Dichotomies in Question(S) -- The Paradoxes of Mediation -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
• Altri titoli varianti: Rhetoric of Immediacy
• Titolo autorizzato: The rhetoric of immediacy
• ISBN: 0-691-07374-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248059503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.