Double Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses

by Bernard Faure

Book Overview

This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some clich s about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). The use of the Buddhist notion of the Two Truths as a hermeneutic device leads to a double or multiple exposure that will call into question our mental habits and force us to ask questions differently, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804743487
• ISBN13: 9780804743488
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"