The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji ( Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China wi...(展开全部)

The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji ( Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China wi...(展开全部)

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan / Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, challenging this inversion of traditional 'Orientalist' discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought.

Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan / Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, challenging this inversion of traditional 'Orientalist' discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought.

Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a post-Protestant and post-Enlightenment vision of ritual action that emphasizes ri...(展开全部)

This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability t...(展开全部)