The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen
tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various
aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular,
they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their claim
to uniqueness, were indebted to larger trends in East Asian
Buddhism, such as the cults of icons, relics and the monastic robe.
The book emphasises the importance of ritual for a proper
understanding of this allegedly anti-ritualistic form of Buddhism.
In doing so, it deconstructs the Chan/Zen 'rhetoric of immediacy'
and its ideological underpinnings.
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