Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Reader-response study and translation of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun
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| Other uniform titles: | Mouzi. Li huo lun. English.
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| ISBN: | 0585045240
9780585045245
0791422038
0791422046
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| Notes: | "A study conducted with support from The Pacific Cultural foundation, The Republic of China."
Includes article notes (pages 177-206), bibliographical references (pages 207-221), and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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. This 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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| Other form: | Print version: Keenan, John P., 1940- How master Mou removes our doubts. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994 0791422038
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