How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts: A Reader-Response Study and Translation of the Mou - Couverture souple

Keenan, John P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791422046 ISBN 13 : 9780791422045

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

This is the first English translation of the earliest Chinese Buddhist text, but it is more than a translation. Keenan shows that Mou-tzu's Treatise on Alleviating Doubt is a Buddhist hermeneutic on the Chinese classics. Using a reader-response method of examining the text, Keenan shows how the rhetoric convinces readers that one can remain culturally Chinese yet be a Buddhist.

The Introduction explains the reader-response methodology, develops the movement of the dialogue in terms of this method, and clarifies the rhetorical impact of Master Mou's argument. The Introduction is followed by the thirty-seven articles of the text. Each article is first translated into English, then the contextual images and ideas are unpacked for each, and finally each article is subjected to a reader-response critique that shows what the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John P. Keenan is Associate Professor of Religion at Middlebury College

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791422046
• ISBN 13: 9780791422045
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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