Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism

by Bernard Faure (Author), Bernard Faure (Author), Phyllis Brooks (Translator)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 348
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04 Jun 2000

ISBN 10: 0691029415
ISBN 13: 9780691029412