num_pages: 416
description: 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 all traditional meditations including scripture ritual good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan.
language: English
title: The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism
publisher: Princeton University Press