Visions of power : imagining medieval Japanese Buddhism
著者
書誌事項
Visions of power : imagining medieval Japanese Buddhism
Princeton University Press, c1996
- alk. paper
- paperback
- タイトル別名
-
Fragments de l'imaginaire bouddhique
並立書誌 全1件
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全23件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Bibliography: p. [299]-321
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 post-modernist 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 de-mythologising, but he lived in a psychological world that was just as imbued with the marvelous as was that of his con-temporary 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.
「Nielsen BookData」 より