How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts (A Reader-Response Study and Translation of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun)

This is the first English translation of the earliest Chinese Buddhist text, but it is more than a translation. Keenan shows that Mou-tzu’s Treatise on Alleviating Doubt is a Buddhist hermeneutic on the Chinese classics. Using a reader- response method of examining the text, Keenan shows how the rhetoric convinces readers that one can remain culturally Chinese yet be a Buddhist.

The Introduction explains the reader-response methodology, develops the movement of the dialogue in terms of this method, and clarifies the rhetorical impact of Master Mou’s argument. The Introduction is followed by | the thirty-seven articles of the text. Each article is first translated into English, then the contextual images and ideas are unpacked for each, and finally cach article is subjected to a reader-response critique that shows what the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps.

• ITEM CODE: NAS056
• AUTHOR: JOHN P. KEENAN
• PUBLISHER: SRI SATGURU PUBLICATIONS
• LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
• EDITION: 1997
• ISBN: 8170305160
• PAGES: 240
• COVER: HARDCOVER
• OTHER DETAILS 8.50 X 5.50 INCH
• WEIGHT 400 GM

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