Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism

by Bernard Faure

Book Overview

Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Although Faure's new book may be read at one level as an intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691029415
• ISBN13: 9780691029412
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"