Abstract
Bernard Faure's encyclopedic study of the rhetoric of immediacy and the reality of mediation in the Chan/Zen tradition (The rhetoric of immediacy : a cultural critique of Chan/Zen buddhism, Princeton University Press, 1991) suffers from lapses and its own rhetorical excesses, but succeeds in conveying the essential undecidability of Chan, as manifested in deeds and words through the centuries in China and Japan
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