Beyond Buddhist modernism
Reimagining Zen in the West
Cross-cultural hermeneutics
Part I: Zen and the immanent frame
Zen transmissions and reimaginings
Reimagining Indian Buddhism as Chinese Chan
Sudden enlightenment versus gradual cultivation
Beyond language versus within language
Koan practice versus silent illumination
Reimagining Chinese Chan as Japanese Zen
Zen imaginings in the West
Beyond subtraction stories
Cross pressures in the immanent frame
The general malaise of immanence
Enlightenment as a new form of fullness
Disenchantment versus re-enchantment
Beyond transcendence and immanence
Open versus closed Zen practice
Universalization: Zen as universal mysticism
The birth of Buddhism as a world religion
Criticizing the universality of pure experience
Against perennialism: Criticism of universal mysticism
Back to language: Dogen's mystical hermeneutics
Zen meditation as universal Dharma practice
Psychologization: The Zen experience
Disenchanting the Bodhisattvas
Questioning the Zen experience
Going beyond excarnation and the buffered self
Dogen's embodied realization
The therapeutic turn: Zen as therapy
From conversion to healing
The reaffirmation of ordinary life
Zen and the affirmation of ordinary life
Dogen on the affirmation of ordinary life
The medicalization of the moral
Instrumentalization versus no gain
The rise of expressive individualism: Zen as global spirituality
The rise of expressive individualism
Personal spirituality versus communal religious practice
Zen belonging in the West
Pure Zen versus Buddhist Zen
Zen ritual as communal practice
Part III: Beyond Zen modernism
Batchelor's secular Buddhism
The search for the human Buddha
Reimagining emptiness: Toward a subtler language of fullness
Hisamatsu and Oriental nothingness
David Lov's new Buddhist path
Deconstructing enlightenment: Beyond transcendence and immanence
Evolution: A new enchanted Buddhist worldview
Ethics: Reimagining the Bodhisattva path
Back to Buddhist scriptures
Zen fullness as ongoing practice-realization
From individual pure Zen to communal Bodhisattva Zen
Repenting and eliminating bad karma
Receiving precepts and joining the ranks
Making the vow to benefit beings