Cho Seeing Like the Buddha

Enlightenment through Film
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6440-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Considers film as a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cho, Francisca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgment
Abbreviations

1. Seeing Like the Buddha

2. The Karmic Narrative of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.and Spring

3. The Meditative Discernment of Nang Nak

4. Rashomon and the Indiscernible Emptiness of Being

5. The Depth of Shadows in Maborosi

6. The Visual Cinema of Terrence Malick

7. Descent into the World

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francisca Cho is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at Georgetown University. Her books include Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism (written with Richard K. Squier) and Embracing Illusion: Truth and Fiction in The Dream of the Nine Clouds, also published by SUNY Press.