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  • Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context
    Bernard Faure
    The essays in this volume, by some of the best scholars in the field, attempt to replace the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. ...
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    103,96 €

  • The Power of Denial
    Bernard Faure
    Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women’s lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial, Bernard Faure takes an important step toward redressing this situation by boldly asking: does Buddhism offer women liberation or limitation? Continuing the innovative ex...
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    89,39 €

  • Visions of Power
    Bernard Faure / Phyllis Brooks
    Bernard Faure’s previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Alt...
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    78,86 €

  • The Red Thread
    Bernard Faure
    Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism’s paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author’s anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between th...
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    85,78 €

  • Chan Insights and Oversights
    Bernard Faure
    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 marginal...
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    78,90 €

  • The Rhetoric of Immediacy
    Bernard Faure
    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 ...
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    78,58 €