Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals how Chan structures its practice and ...
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Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals how Chan structures its practice and doctrine on such mental paradigms as mediacy/immediacy, sudden/gradual, and center/margins.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in very good jacket. First printing, 1991, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 400pp., not illustrated. Book VG with rubbing to boards and edges, binding tight, sticker to front pastedown, front endpapers creased, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with creasing to flaps, rubbing and mild edgewear.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Clean text and solid, square binding. Former owner's beautiful Chinese dragon-styled bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket free of tears, slight edgewear only, with some creasing to front flap. Dj now in new archival protector and nice to handle. Index, 400 pp.