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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 each article is subjected to a reader-response critique that shows what the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps.

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Author:   John P. Keenan
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780791422038

ISBN 10:   0791422038
Pages:   229
Publication Date:   05 December 1994
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Reading the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun:Socioliterary Strategies The Intent of the Li-huo lun Modem Scholarship The Approach of Literary Criticism Reader-Response Criticism The Plot of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun Interpretation As a Function of an Institutional Community The Argument of the Li-huo lun Notes to Introduction The Preface to the Li-huo lun Background and Context English Translation of Preface: Mou-tzu's Treatise on the Removal of Doubt Reader-Response Criticism Mou-tzu's Dialogue with His Critics Each of Thirty-Seven Articles Treated in Three Parts: 1. English Translation 2. Source Codes (Background textual images and ideas) 3. Reader-Response Criticism (What the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps) Notes to Articles Bibliography Index

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John P. Keenan is Associate Professor of Religion at Middlebury College

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