{"product_id":"the-rhetoric-of-immediacy-a-cultural-critique-of-chanzen-buddhism-9780691029634","title":"The Rhetoric of Immediacy  A Cultural Critique of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. This title focuses on Chan's insistence on 'immediacy' - its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992 \"Not since D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966) has any responsible scholar attempted in English to synthesize such a broad stretch of the history of Zen Buddhism as has Bernard Faure... [The book] offers the best narration in English of the role that magicians, healers, jesters, relics, mummies, dreams, funerals, deities, and mundane rituals play in a tradition that lays claim to emptiness.\"--Stephen F. Teiser, Journal of Religion \"Readers will be rewarded by truly insightful vistas of bottomless chasms and distant peaks, flowering puns and mutant etymologies, stunning flights of free association, and encounters with many species of exotic facts, not to mention the tracks and droppings of latter-day giants of social-historical theory.\"--Monumenta Nipponica","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403694088535,"sku":"9780691029634","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rhetoric-of-immediacy-a-cultural-critique-of-chanzen-buddhism-9780691029634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}