Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age
Subtitle: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9789004435070
Subjects: Buddhism
Description: "In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age Andre  van der Braak offers an account of the exciting but also problematic encounter between enchanted Japanese Zen Buddhism and secular Western modernity over the past century, using Charles Taylor's magnum opus A Secular Age as an interpretative lens. As the tenuous compromises of various forms of "Zen modernism" are breaking down today, new imaginings of Zen are urgently needed that go beyond both a Romantic mystical Zen and a secular "mindfulness" Zen. As a Zen scholar-practitioner, Andre  van der Braak shows that the Zen philosophy of the 13th century Zen master Do gen offers much resources for new hermeneutical, embodied, non-instrumental and communal approaches to contemporary Zen theory and practice in the West"--