| #685869 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1996-11-11 | 1996-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.84 x6.00l,1.12 | File Name: 0691029024 | 340 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A PHILOSOPHICAL "ANALYSIS/CRITIQUE" OF CHINESE/JAPANESE BUDDHISM|By Steven H Propp|At the time this book was published in 1993, Bernard faure was a Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is also the author of books such as The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality, Unmasking Buddhism, The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddh|From Scientific American|Thoughtful and thoughtprovoking. After reading Faure's contributions in The Rhetoric of Immediacy and Insights and Oversights, none of us working the fields of Zen, Buddhist studies, or historical and cultural studies can go abou
For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, he challenges this inversion of traditional "Orientalist" discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought. Questioning the assumptions of "Easterners" as well, i...
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