List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgment -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Seeing Like the Buddha -- Erasing the Buddha -- Th
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Table of 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-Perception --
The 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