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Visions of Power Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism.

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, Keiz...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Faure, Bernard
Other Authors: Brooks, Phyllis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1996.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Autobiographical Imagination
  • Ch. 2. Imagined Lineages
  • Ch. 3. Imagining Powers
  • Ch. 4. Mythical Imaginaire
  • Ch. 5. Dreaming
  • Ch. 6. Images of Death
  • Ch. 7. Places of the Mind
  • Ch. 8. The Ritual Body
  • Ch. 9. The Power of Symbols
  • Ch. 10. Iconic Imagination
  • Ch. 11. Beyond Icons
  • Epilogue: Imagination and Ideology.