Chan insights and oversights : an epistemological critique of the Chan tradition /
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chan as Secondary Orientalism
- The Cultural ""Encounter Dialogue
- Comparison, Counterpoint, Intertwining
- Part One
- Chapter One: Chan/Zen in the Western Imagination
- Missionary Accounts
- Buddhism and Quietism
- Chan and Indian Mysticism
- The Apostle Bodhidharma
- Claudel and Buddhism
- Chapter Two: The Rise of Zen Orientalism
- Suzuki's Zen
- The Western Critics of Suzuki
- Nishida and the Kyoto School
- Chapter Three: Rethinking Chan Historiography
- Places and People
- The Rise of Chan Historiography in Japan
- The Cost of Objectivism
- The Teleological Fallacy
- Writing Chan History
- Chapter Four: Alternatives
- The Structural Approach
- The Hermeneutic Approach
- Toward a Performative Scholarship
- Part Two
- Chapter Five: Space and Place
- Chan and Local Spirits
- From Place to Space
- Chan Insights and Di-visions
- Chapter Six: Times and Tides
- Conflicting Models
- Dogen and His Times
- The Ritualization of Time
- Chapter Seven: Chan and Language: Fair and Unfair Games
- On the Way to Language
- Poetical Language in Chan
- How to Do Things with the Koan
- Chapter Eight: In-scribing/De-scribing Chan
- A Qualified Anti-intellectualism
- Chan Logocentrism
- Orality in Chan
- Chan as a Kind of Writing
- Another Differend
- Chan Rhetoric
- Chapter Nine: The Paradoxes of Chan Individualism
- The Western Configuration of the Self
- Early Buddhist Conceptions
- Chinese Conceptions
- The Individual and Power
- Solitaire I Solidaire
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index