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“Mountains, Rivers, and the Whole Earth”: Koan Interpretations of Female Zen Practitioners |
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Van Overmeire, Ben
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| Source |
Religions
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| Volume | v.9 n.4 |
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| Date | 2018.04 |
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| Publisher | MDIP |
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https://www.mdpi.com/
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| Location | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | Though recent years have seen a critical reappraisal of Buddhist texts from the angle of performance and gender studies, examinations of Zen Buddhist encounter dialogues (better known under their edited form as “koan”) within this framework are rare. In this article, I first use Rebecca Schneider’s notion of “reenactment” to characterize interpretative strategies developed by contemporary female Zen practitioners to contest the androcentrism found in koan commentary. Drawing on The Hidden Lamp (2013), I suggest that there are two ways of reading encounter dialogues. One of these, the “grasping way,” tends to be confrontational and full of masculine and martial imagery. The other, the “granting way,” foregrounds the (female) body and the family as sites of transmission, stressing connection instead of opposition. I then argue that these “granting” readings of encounter dialogues gesture towards a Zen lineage that is universal, extended to everyone, even to the non-human. |
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| Table of contents | 1. Introduction
2. Reenacting the Past
3. Granting and Grasping
4. Mu as a Lover: Sunya Kjolhede
5. The Zen Family
6. Kinship beyond the Human
7. Conclusions
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| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.3390/rel9040125 |
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| Hits | 242 |
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| Created date | 2021.11.12 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.19 |
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