The Rhetoric of Immediacy

Through an exploration of key concepts and metaphors, the author guides readers through the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and i... » 

Through an exploration of key concepts and metaphors, the author guides readers through the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. The study focuses on Chan's insistence on immediacy - its denial of all traditional meditations. «