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This book is a collection of articles by one of the leading scholars in Japanese thought dealing with three areas of Japanese philosophy and religion: Dôgen's Zen view of liberation, including the key doctrines of casting off body-mind, being-time, and spontaneous manifestation of the kôan; the relation between Buddhism, literary aesthetics, and folk religion; and a comparison of Japanese and Western thought, particularly Heidegger, on science, language, and death. The central theme throughout these essays is the meaning of time and impermanence in Japanese religion and culture based on Buddhist contemplation. The book's title refers to a phrase used by Dôgen, the dramatist Chikamatsu, and others that plays on the twofold image of «dream» representing either the fleeting world of illusion or the nonsubstantial realm of ultimate reality. One of the articles is a new annotated translation of Dôgen's Shôbôgenzô «Muchű setsumu» («Disclosing a Dream Within a Dream») fascicle. Other essays offer novel interpretations of Chikamatsu and Kyoto-school thinkers Kuki Shűzô and Nishitani Keiji in addition to Japanese folk religion.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Dream Within a Dream
• Author: Steven Heine
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 247
• EAN: 9780820413501
• ISBN: 9780820413501
• ID: 01034271
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 508 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 236 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1991

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