TY  - BOOK
AU  - Faure,Bernard
AU  - Brooks,Phyllis
TI  - Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism 
SN  - 9780691219561
U1  - 294.3927 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Buddhist art and symbolism
KW  - Japan
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aśvaghoṣa
KW  - Barthes, Roland
KW  - Bassui Tokusho
KW  - Certeau, Michel de
KW  - Chogen
KW  - Daigenshuri
KW  - Daijōji
KW  - Eikan
KW  - Ennin
KW  - Foucault, Michel
KW  - Four Gates
KW  - Gien
KW  - Hakusan
KW  - Han Yu
KW  - Hirata Atsutane
KW  - Jidian
KW  - Kakunyo
KW  - Mannoni, Octave
KW  - Mauss, Marcel
KW  - Nabokov, Vladimir
KW  - Pei Xiu
KW  - Puji
KW  - Ratnakuta-sûtra
KW  - Rujing
KW  - Samantabhadra
KW  - Shenhui
KW  - Shinran
KW  - Shungi
KW  - Shunjō
KW  - Tambiah, Stanley
KW  - Uttarakuru
KW  - Vajraputra (Arhat)
KW  - Weber, Max
KW  - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
KW  - Xiangguosi
KW  - Yijingy
KW  - Zhiyi
KW  - dhdrani
KW  - iconoclasm
KW  - imaginaire
KW  - kechimyaku
KW  - lay adepts
KW  - manjala
KW  - okibumi
KW  - sacred springs
KW  - symbols
KW  - Ānanda
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE Autobiographical Imagination --; CHAPTER TWO Imagined Lineages --; CHAPTER THREE Imagining Powers --; CHAPTER FOUR Mythical Imaginaire --; CHAPTER FIVE Dreaming --; CHAPTER SIX Images of Death --; CHAPTER SEVEN Places of the Mind --; CHAPTER EIGHT The Ritual Body --; CHAPTER NINE The Power of Symbols --; CHAPTER TEN Iconic Imagination --; CHAPTER ELEVEN Beyond Icons --; EPILOGUE Imagination and Ideology --; GLOSSARY --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Although Faure's new book may be read at one level as an intellectual biography, Keizan is portrayed here less as an original thinker than as a representative of his culture and an example of the paradoxes of the Soto school. The Chan/Zen doctrine that he avowed was allegedly reasonable and demythologizing, but he lived in a psychological world that was just as imbued with the marvelous as was that of his contemporary Dante Alighieri. Drawing on his own dreams to demonstrate that he possessed the magical authority that he felt to reside also in icons and relics, Keizan strove to use these "visions of power" to buttress his influence as a patriarch. To reveal the historical, institutional, ritual, and visionary elements in Keizan's life and thought and to compare these to Soto doctrine, Faure draws on largely neglected texts, particularly the Record of Tokoku (a chronicle that begins with Keizan's account of the origins of the first of the monasteries that he established) and the kirigami, or secret initiation documents
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