How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts: A Reader-Response Study and Translation of the Mou-Tzu Li-Huo Lun (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies)

Mou-Tzu, Keenan, John P.

ISBN 10: 0791422038 / ISBN 13: 9780791422038

Published by State Univ of New York Pr, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts: A Reader-Response Study and Translation of the Mou-Tzu Li-Huo Lun (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies)
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791422038
• ISBN 13: 9780791422038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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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 the Author

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