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Zen Buddhist Rhetoric in China, Korea, and Japan: 3
Author(s): Christoph Anderl (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 25 Nov. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 492 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004185569
- ISBN-13: 9789004185562
Book Description
Through a diachronic and comparative approach this book offers a comprehensive study of Zen Buddhist linguistic and rhetoric devices in China, Korea, and Japan. It draws a vivid picture of the complexity of Zen Buddhist literary production in interaction with doctrinal and ritual issues, as well as in response to the sociopolitical contexts.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This book of collected essays is definitely a welcome volume for scholars of Chan studies.(…) Through this diachronic and comparative approach, the work aims to illustrate the great complexity and the multifaceted features of Chan literature in the respective socio-political and socio-religious contexts.(…) the rhetorical approach applied in this volume and the undeniable merits it brings to the field of Chan/Son/Zen should be regarded highly.’
Lin Pei-ying, The Eastern Buddhist, 43 (1&2: 2012)
Lin Pei-ying, The Eastern Buddhist, 43 (1&2: 2012)
‘…a welcome edition to Zen Studies.’
Jimmy Yu,
About the Author
Christoph Anderl, Dr. Art. (2004), is currently participating in a project (Ruhr University Bochum) on the spread of Buddhist narratives and iconography along the Silk Road, as well as being Guest Professor of East Asian Linguistics at Ghent University. His publications focus on issues concerning medieval Chinese language and Buddhism, including his two-volumed Studies in the Language of Ztáng jí (Oslo, Unipub 2004).
