TY  - BOOK
AU  - Faure,Bernard
TI  - Chan Buddhism in ritual context
SN  - 0203987810
AV  - BQ9270 .C43 2003eb
U1  - 294.36/927/09 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - RoutledgeCurzon
KW  - Zen Buddhism
KW  - Rituals
KW  - History
KW  - Bouddhisme zen
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chan and Zen studies: the state of the field(s); Bernard Faure --; Imagining the portrait of a Chan master; Wendi Adamek --; On the ritual use of Chan portraiture in medieval China; T. Griffith Foulk; Robert H. Sharf --; Tang dynasty Chan mummy [roushen] and a modern case of furta sacra?: investigating the contested bones of Shitou Xiqian; James Robson --; Filling the Zen shū: notes on the Jisshū Yōdō Ki; Carl Bielefeldt --; Quand l'habit fait le moine: the symbolism of the kāṣāya in Sōtō Zen; Bernard Faure --; Enlightenment of kami and ghosts: spirit ordinations in Japanese Sōtō Zen; William M. Bodiford --; How Dōshō's medicine saved Dōgen: medicine, Dōshōan and Edo-period Dōgen biographies; Duncan Ryūken Williams
N2  - The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular, they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their claim to uniqueness, were indebted to larger trends in East Asian Buddhism, such as the cults of icons, relics and the monastic robe. The book emphasises the importance of ritual for a proper understanding of this allegedly anti-ritualistic form of Buddhism. In doing so, it deconstructs the Chan/Zen 'rhetoric of immediacy' and its ideologica
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