Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment through Film
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgment -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Seeing Like the Buddha -- Erasing the Buddha -- The Necessity of Form -- Visions of the Buddha -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Karmic Narrative of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring -- Observing the Buddhist...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism in motion pictures
B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Cho, Francisca: Seeing Like the Buddha : Enlightenment through Film. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2017. - 9781438464398 |
| Summary: | Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgment -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Seeing Like the Buddha -- Erasing the Buddha -- The Necessity of Form -- Visions of the Buddha -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Karmic Narrative of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring -- Observing the Buddhist Drama -- The Bodhisattva's Vision -- Repetition and Awakening -- The Collapse of Time -- Chapter 3 The Meditative Discernment of Nang Nak -- The Karma of Ghosts -- The Buddhist Taming -- The Eye of Wisdom -- Keeping It Real -- Chapter 4 Rashomon and the Indiscernible Emptiness of Being -- Buddhist Origins -- The Subjectivity of Perception -- The Perception of No-Perception -- The Emptiness of Being -- Chapter 5 The Depth of Shadows in Maborosi -- The Preference for Shadows -- The Religious and the Aesthetic -- From the Medieval to the Modern -- From National Cinemas to Buddhist Cinema -- Chapter 6 The Visual Cinema of Terrence Malick -- The Nonnarrative Language of the Visual -- The Seeing of Nature -- Movement and Flow -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Descent into the World -- Buddhist Visionary Practices -- Film as Visionary Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1438464401 |