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Zen Skin, Zen Marrow - Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up? (Hardcover)
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Zen Skin, Zen Marrow - Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up? (Hardcover)
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Since Zen Buddhism first captivated the attention of Western
seekers the dominant discourse about this sect has been romantic,
idealistic, and utopian. The essence of Zen has been described as
ineffable, holistic, and promoting social harmony. In recent years,
however, some scholars have begun to examine Zen through the lenses
of historical and cultural criticism, producing a sharp challenge
to the traditional view. These clashing viewpoints are now
entrenched in two warring camps, and their exponents talk past each
other with virtually no constructive interaction. In this book,
Steven Heine argues that a constructive compromise is possible. He
focuses on three principal areas of disagreement: (1) the role of
language and discourse in a tradition that claims to be 'outside
words and letters, ' yet has produced a voluminous body of texts,
(2) the function of rituals and objects of worship to gain world
benefit in a tradition supposedly founded on unmediated experience
attained in an iconoclastic and ascetic environment, (3) the impact
of a tradition that espouses peace and harmony on social issues
such as class and gender discrimination and on nationalism and
imperialism in Japan. Avoiding the stagnant polarization that
characterizes most encounters between Zen traditionalists and their
critics, he suggests ways in which these two perspectives can
complement each other in a more balanced and nuanced alternative
position.
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