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Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism. By Peter D. Hershock. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. 236.

This is a work of great originality and surpassing philosophical interest, as well as a subtle and penetrating improvisation on themes suggested by the canonical works of Chinese Ch'an Buddhism. Taking seriously both the canonical Ch'an rhetoric and recent refinements in Western scholarly apprehensions concerning the dis...