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Author Cho, Francisca, author.

Title Seeing like the Buddha : enlightenment through film / Francisca Cho.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgment; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Seeing Like the Buddha; Erasing the Buddha; The Necessity of Form; Visions of the Buddha; Conclusion; Chapter 2 The Karmic Narrative of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring; Observing the Buddhist Drama; The Bodhisattva's Vision; Repetition and Awakening; The Collapse of Time; Chapter 3 The Meditative Discernment of Nang Nak; The Karma of Ghosts; The Buddhist Taming; The Eye of Wisdom; Keeping It Real; Chapter 4 Rashomon and the Indiscernible Emptiness of Being; Buddhist Origins; The Subjectivity of Perception.
The Perception of No-PerceptionThe Emptiness of Being; Chapter 5 The Depth of Shadows in Maborosi; The Preference for Shadows; The Religious and the Aesthetic; From the Medieval to the Modern; From National Cinemas to Buddhist Cinema; Chapter 6 The Visual Cinema of Terrence Malick; The Nonnarrative Language of the Visual; The Seeing of Nature; Movement and Flow; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Descent into the World; Buddhist Visionary Practices; Film as Visionary Practice; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
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Subject Buddhism in motion pictures.
Buddhism in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cho, Francisca. Seeing like the Buddha. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017] 9781438464398 (DLC) 2016031461
ISBN 9781438464404 (electronic book)
1438464401 (electronic book)
9781438464398 (hardcover alkaline paper)