Title:	Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context
Authors:	Nick Allen, Catherine Despeux, Chris Minkowski, Fabio Rambelli and Andrew Rippin Faure, Bernard Bernard Faure
Keywords:	Chan Buddhism
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen traditions 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.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/72938
ISBN:	0-203-98781-0
Appears in Collections:	History

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