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The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism

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Exploring key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides readers to an appreciation of some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese traditions of Chan Buddhism and Japanese Zen. Faure focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional meditations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan.

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The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism 1994, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691029634

Revised edition

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The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism 1991, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691073743

Hardcover