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

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

Bernard Faure

416 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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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...

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