RT Book
T1 American Koan: Imagining Zen and Self in Autobiographical Literature
T2 Studies in Religion and Culture Series
A1 Van Overmeire, Ben 1984-
LA English
PP La Vergne
PB University of Virginia Press
YR 2024
ED 1st ed.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1899588760
AB Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Language Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. Enlightenment: D. T. Suzuki and Philip Kapleau -- 2. Failure: Janwillem van de Wetering, David Chadwick, Natali -- 3. The Two Truths: Myoan Grace Schireson, Claire Gesshin Gree -- 4. Detachment in Van de Wetering's Afterzen -- 5. Interdependence in the Work of Ruth Ozeki -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Recent books in the series.
AB "The koan is among the most recognizable of Zen Buddhist genres, a riddle or puzzle used during meditation to help unravel greater truths about the world or those meditating. In American Koan, Ben Van Overmeire examines the literary function of these ancient dialogues in the "Zen monastic memoirs" of modern western authors such as Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, and others. Such dialogues are portrayed in these modern memoirs as the ideal or utopian world of Zen, against which the protagonist's own experiences of Zen are to be measured. Van Overmeire examines this "utopian" nostalgia for a pure cultural origin that represents something essential and foundational, thereby clarifying the relationship between the modern understanding of Zen and the advent of modernity, with its attendant feeling of destabilization"--
OP 251
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
CN BQ9289.5
SN 9780813952109
K1 Literature-Criticism and interpretation
K1 Koan
K1 Zen Buddhism in literature
K1 Literature : Criticism and interpretation
K1 Autobiography