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

Keenan, John P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791422046 ISBN 13: 9780791422045

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0791422046
• ISBN 13: 9780791422045
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 229