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Article: The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism.(Review) (book review)
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- Philosophy East and West
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- July 1, 1999
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The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism. By Bernard Faure. Translated by Phyllis Brooks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Bernard Faure has established himself as the preeminent and most creative Chan scholar in the United States. Working with and going beyond recent Japanese scholarship, he has reevaluated the philosophical interpretation of Chan from a postmodernist perspective. In his latest work, The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism, Faure once again makes a vital contribution to the field, though this time from a historiographical standpoint. Expertly translated by Phyllis Brooks, this ...