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Contents Preface vii Abbreviations xi Part One: Shape-Shifting 1. Putting the Fox Back in the Fox Kòan 3 2. The Kòan’s Multivalent Discursive Structure 41 Part Two: Text-Shaping 3. Philosophical Paradigm of Paradoxicality 67 4. Deep Faith in Causality 105 5. Folklore Morphology and the Issue of Repentance 131 6. Unconcluding Methodological Reflections 177 Appendix I: Translations of Fox Kòan Commentaries 201 Appendix II: Translation of “Pai-chang’s Monastic Rules” 217 Notes 223 List of Sino-Japanese Terms 261 Bibliography 000 Index 000 v ...

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