]> 2026-10-16T13:54:26-04:00 Books/The Rhetoric of Immediacy 0 en No Faure, B. Secondary Sources <div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-0daff715b889709dEND_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Faure, B.|Bernard Faure]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-110f5906661bc195END_WIDGET </div> * ''Acknowledgments''xi * ''Abbreviations''xiii * ''Prologue''3 ** FROM MARGINS TO MEDITATION7 ** METHODOLOGIGAL POLYTHEISM7 * ''Chapter One: The Differential Tradition''11 *** ''Six patriarchs in search of a tradition''12 ** THE SECOND ORDER16 *** ''An alienating tradition?''21 *** ''Tradition as kinship''23 *** ''Making a difference''26 * ''Chapter Two. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm''32 ** THE SEMANTIC FIELD33 ** THE IDEOLOGICAL (DIS)CONTENT37 ** PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS41 *** ''Point de fruite? Variations on subitism''44 *** ''The gradual perspective''47 * ''Chapter Three. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy''53 *** ''Double trouble''57 ** THE "NATURALIST HERESY"59 ** SKILLFUL MEANS63 ** THE MEANS AND THE ENDS65 *** ''The Chan denial of hierarchy''66 *** ''The intermediary world''70 * ''Chapter Four. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s)''79 ** A THEORETICAL PARENTHESIS79 *** ''Popular religion and its correlatives''84 ** THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT87 *** ''From Primitives to Zen, and conversely''93 * ''Chapter Five. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (I)''96 ** THE THAUMATURGE TRADITION IN CHINA96 *** Démons et merveilles: ''Early Chan thaumaturges''98 *** ''The vanishing mediator''100 *** ''The Buddhist ambivalence toward thaumaturges''102 ** THE DOMESICATION OF THE THAUMATURGE111 * ''Chapter Six: The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (II)''115 ** THE EMERGENCE OF THE TRICKSTER115 *** ''A bittersweet friendship''119 *** ''On the margins of Chan''121 *** ''Of madness as one of the fine arts''122 ** THE BODHISATTVA IDEAL125 ** THE RETURN OF THE THAUMATURGE129 * ''Chapter Seven. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics''132 ** THE CULT OF ŚARĪRA137 ** THE ICONOCLASTIC REACTION143 * ''Chapter Eight. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): "Sublime Corpses" and Icons''148 ** CHAN "FLESH-BODIES"150 ** THE SEMANTIC EVOLUTION156 ** BONES OF CONTENTION160 *** ''Huineng's two bodies''162 *** ''Dissemination of charisma and sectarianism''165 ** ICONS AND CHINSÖ169 *** ''Transmission or diffusion?''174 *** ''Figures of the double''176 * ''Chapter Nine. The Ritualization of Death''179 ** THE CHAN DENIAL OF DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE179 *** ''The funeral paradox''183 ** THE RITUAL DOMESTICATION OF DEATH184 *** ''Preliminaries''184 *** ''The liminal stage: Chan funerary ritual''191 ** FROM DEFILEMENT TO PURITY203 * ''Chapter Ten. Dreams Within a Dream''209 ** METHODOLOGICAL CAVEAT209 ** ASIAN DREAMS212 *** ''The dream metaphor''212 ** DREAMING IN CHAN/ZEN215 *** ''Dreams and hagiography''220 ** DREAMING PRACTICE221 *** ''Myōe's Record of Dreams''222 *** ''A realistic dreamer''224 *** ''Dreams of ascent and voices of dissent''226 * ''Chapter Eleven. Digression: The Limits of Transgression''231 ** TALES OF MONASTIC DERELICTION234 ** CHAN/ZEN ATTITUDES TOWARD SEXUALITY237 ** IMAGES OF WOMEN239 *** T''he rhetoric of equality''242 *** ''Remarkable women''245 *** ''Ikkyū and women''247 ** SODOM AND GOMORH248 *** ''The sword and the chrysanthemum''250 * ''Chapter Twelve. The Return of the Gods''258 ** MILITANT SYNCRETISM260 ** CHAN/ZEN MYTHOLOGICAL IMAGERY261 ** THE CULT OF THE ARHATS266 ** ZEN AND THE KAMI272 *** ''Gods, ghosts, and ancestors''280 * ''Chapter Thirteen, Ritual Antiritualism''284 ** ANOTHER RITE CONTROVERSY285 *** ''The Chan critique of ritualism''287 ** CHAN/ZEN LITURGY292 *** ''Incantatory Zen''293 ** RITUAL OMNIPRESENT294 *** ''Meditation as ritual''295 *** ''The ritualization of life''297 ** RITUAL AS IDEOLOGY299 ** RITUAL MEDITATION301 * ''Epilogue''304 ** DICHOTOMIES IN QUESTION(S)310 ** THE PARADOXES OF MEDITATION314 * ''Glossary''321 * ''Bibliography''331 ** PRIMARY SOURCES331 ** SECONDARY SOURCES340 * ''INDEX''393 Academic true IV false Advanced Book The Rhetoric of Immediacy Faure, Bernard. ''The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan’s insistence on “immediacy” — its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works — and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals how Chan structures its practice and doctrine on such mental paradigms as mediacy/immediacy, sudden/gradual, and center/margins. (Source: [https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691029634/the-rhetoric-of-immediacy Princeton University Press]) false The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism Faure, Bernard. ''The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism''. 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