Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism (Chinese Philosophy Culture)

Hershock, Peter D.

ISBN 10: 0791429814 / ISBN 13: 9780791429815

Verlag: State University of New York Pre, 1996

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Liberating Intimacy dramatically reevaluates the teachings and practice of Ch'an Buddhism. Considering Buddha's insight that everything is empty or absent of a permanent and independent "self nature," Hershock argues that not only is suffering without any essence and so dependent on time and place, so is end of suffering or enlightenment. He shows that the tradition need not entail a quietistic withdrawal from social life. Far from being something privately attained and experienced, Ch'an enlightenment is best seen as the opening of a virtuosic intimacy through which we are continually liberated from the arrogance of both "self" and "other." That is, enlightenment in Ch'an must be understood as irreducibly social—it can never be merely "mine" or "yours," but is only realized as "ours." Including new translations from the teachings of Ma-tzu, Pai-chang, Huang-po and Lin-chi, Liberating Intimacy reconciles the almost fierce individualism that characterizes the mastery of Ch'an and its unwavering embrace of the ideal of compassionately saving all beings.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Peter D. Hershock is Project Fellow of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center.

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Titel: Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and ...
Verlag: State University of New York Pre
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good