The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism 0691073740

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 9
Prologue......Page 11
1. The Differential Tradition......Page 19
2. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm......Page 40
3. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy......Page 61
4. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s)......Page 87
5. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (I)......Page 104
6. The Thaumaturge and Its Avatars (II)......Page 123
7. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics......Page 140
8. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): "Sublime Corpses" and Icons......Page 156
9. The Ritualization of Death......Page 187
10. Dreams Within a Dream......Page 217
11. Digression: The Limits of Transgression......Page 239
12. The Return of the Gods......Page 266
13. Ritual Antiritualism......Page 292
Epilogue......Page 312
Glossary......Page 329
Bibliography......Page 339
Index......Page 401