The Zen of Rags
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23255736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela D Winfield (0000-0002-4861-1551), Paula Arai (0000-0002-9633-9978, corresponding author), Steven Heine (0000-0002-9524-386X) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 360 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Zen and Material Culture (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190469290.003.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W4231979291 |
| ISBN | 9780190469290 |
| Open Library | OL28633725M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter combines ethnographic research (including in-depth interviews with Zen monastics and laity, especially women) with private and public instruction to reveal the significance and the roles of rags in Zen culture. It provides a critical analysis of root assumptions embedded in Zen rags, and it reinterprets Dōgen’s radical nondual wisdom recorded in the Eihei shingi, Eihei kōroku , and Shōbōgenzō with rags in mind. It also elucidates various Zen practices and anecdotes in which rags wipe, wring, clean, protect, heal, and teach both ontological and soteriological dimensions of Zen. This chapter also explores how rags reveal the dynamics of enlightenment in everyday monastic and domestic spheres, and highlights the dimensions of healing and beauty that shape the practices inherent in Zen material culture.
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Ethnography · Sociology · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Buddhism · Japan · Material culture
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |