Visions of Power Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism |
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| Author:
| Faure, Bernard |
| Translator:
| Brooks, Phyllis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-02941-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2000 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $58.00 |
Book Description:
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Looks at Chan/Zen with an array of postmodernist critical techniques. This book probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). It draws on texts particularly the "Record of Tokoku" and the kirigami, or secret initiation documents.
Looks at Chan/Zen with an array of postmodernist critical techniques. This book probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). It draws on texts particularly the "Record of Tokoku" and the kirigami, or secret initiation documents.