| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Chan as Secondary Orientalism | 5 |
| The Cultural "Encounter Dialogue" | 9 |
| Comparison, Counterpoint, Intertwining | 10 |
| Ch. 1 | Chan/Zen in the Western Imagination | 15 |
| Missionary Accounts | 15 |
| Buddhism and Quietism | 29 |
| Chan and Indian Mysticism | 34 |
| The Apostle Bodhidharma | 45 |
| Claudel and Buddhism | 50 |
| Ch. 2 | The Rise of Zen Orientalism | 52 |
| Suzuki's Zen | 53 |
| The Western Critics of Suzuki | 67 |
| Nishida and the Kyoto School | 74 |
| Ch. 3 | Rethinking Chan Historiography | 89 |
| Places and People | 92 |
| The Rise of Chan Historiography in Japan | 99 |
| The Cost of Objectivism | 110 |
| The Teleological Fallacy | 114 |
| Writing Chan History | 123 |
| Ch. 4 | Alternatives | 126 |
| The Structural Approach | 126 |
| The Hermeneutic Approach | 135 |
| Toward a Performative Scholarship | 145 |
| Ch. 5 | Space and Place | 155 |
| Chan and Local Spirits | 156 |
| From Place to Space | 159 |
| Chan In-sights and Di-visions | 167 |
| Ch. 6 | Times and Tides | 175 |
| Conflicting Models | 177 |
| Dogen and His Times | 187 |
| The Ritualization of Time | 192 |
| Ch. 7 | Chan and Language: Fair and Unfair Games | 195 |
| On the Way to Language | 199 |
| Poetical Language in Chan | 205 |
| How to Do Things with the Koan | 211 |
| Ch. 8 | In-scribing/De-scribing Chan | 217 |
| A Qualified Anti-intellectualism | 217 |
| Chan Logocentrism | 220 |
| Orality in Chan | 228 |
| Chan as a Kind of Writing | 233 |
| Another Differend | 234 |
| Chan Rhetoric | 237 |
| Ch. 9 | The Paradoxes of Chan Individualism | 243 |
| The Western Configuration of the Self | 243 |
| Early Buddhist Conceptions | 251 |
| Chinese Conceptions | 254 |
| The Individual and Power | 257 |
| Solitaire/Solidaire | 261 |
| Epilogue | 269 |
| Glossary | 275 |
| Bibliography | 281 |
| Index | 317 |
