Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism
Author:   Steven Heine (Professor of Religious Studies and History Director of Asian Studies, Professor of Religious Studies and History Director of Asian Studies, Florida International University, Miami, FL)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199837281


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 December 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Steven Heine (Professor of Religious Studies and History Director of Asian Studies, Professor of Religious Studies and History Director of Asian Studies, Florida International University, Miami, FL)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780199837281


ISBN 10:   0199837287
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Chapter 1 More Cats Than Dogs? A Tale of Two Versions Chapter 2 Would a Dog Lick a Pot of Hot Oil? Reconstructing the Ur Version Chapter 3 Fightin' Like Cats and Dogs: Methodological Reflections on Deconstructing the Emphatic Mu Chapter 4 Cats and Cows Know That It Is: Textual and Historical Deconstruction of the Ur Version Chapter 5 Dogs May Chase, But Lions Tear Apart: Reconstructing the Dual Version of the''Moo Koan'' Chapter 6 When Is a Dog Not Really a Dog? Or, Yes! We Have No Buddha-Nature Notes Sino-Japanese Glossary Bibliography Index

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<br> Despite the popularity of koan stories in Western Buddhist scholarship, the complexity of their formation and the different ramifications in subsequent developments of the tradition in China, Korea, and Japan have been frequently overlooked. In Like Cats and Dogs, Steven Heine fills this gap by engaging philosophical, soteriological, historical, geographical, and many more layers of the koan tradition with a sustained focus on the famous Mu Koan. His writing is clear and reading this is most enjoyable. Readers will be pleasantly surprised by the transformation that this book brings to their understanding of Zen Buddhism and koan practice. --Jin Y. Park, author of Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics<br><p><br>


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Steven Heine is an authority on East Asian religion and society, especially the history of Zen Buddhism and its relation to culture in China and Japan. He has published two dozen books.

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