Faure, Bernard. Translated by Phyllis Brooks. Princeton, N.J.:
　　　　  Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi+329 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
　　　　  Most of those who will read this book will have already read Bernard
　　　　  Faure's previous volumes from Princeton, The Rhetoric of Immediacy
　　　　  (1991) and Chan Insights and Oversights (1993), the two most
　　　　  important works on Chan and Zen ever published in a Western
　　　　  language. Therefore, many will approach this book wanting to know
　　　　  its relationship with those two. As Faure tells us, the fact that
　　　　  the present work was originally written for a French audience means
　　　　  that it uses some of the same materials found in the earlier books;
　　　　  but he hopes that readers will find this one "complementary, not
　　　　  redundant" (p. xiii). I found it complementary. Other readers should
　　　　  be warned, however, that if they intend to pursue a particular topic
　　　　  in the Chan/Zen tradition, they may find this volume redundant. For
　　　　  some topics, such as the Arhats in East Asia (pp. 88-96) or the
　　　　  Japanese kami (pp. 96-113), they will find the fuller discussion
　　　　  here. For other topics, however, much of the same information is
　　　　  given as before, and many are discussed more satisfactorily in one
　　　　  of the other two volumes (e.g., death and relics in Rhetoric). On at
　　　　  least one occasion (p. 238), I realized I had already read virtually
　　　　  the same sentences elsewhere (Rhetoric, p. 170).
　　　　  The book is nevertheless complementary for two reasons: its focus on
　　　　  the texts relating to a single individual, and its use of the idea
　　　　  of imaginaire to understand those texts. The individual is Keizan
　　　　  Jokin (1268-1325), third in succession to Dogen (1200-53), the
　　　　  founder of the Japanese Soto "sect" of Zen. Keizan has been seen by
　　　　  previous scholars as a reformer, adapting his religion to local
　　　　  conditions and accommodating esoteric Buddhism to make Soto a
　　　　  powerful institution. As a result, he has been referred to as the
　　　　  "second founder" of Soto. Faure has not written a biography of
　　　　  Keizan. Instead, he concentrates on the texts attributed to him,
　　　　  particularly the Records of Tokoku, a heterogeneous text for which
　　　　  Keizan was only partly responsible.
　　　　  Faure concentrates on this particular text, rather than on the more
　　　　  "ideological" texts for which Keizan's authorship is surer, because
　　　　  it allows him to explore the Zen imaginaire of early
　　　　  fourteenth-century Japan. Following Jacques Le Goff's studies of the
　　　　  European Middle Ages, Faure uses this term to indicate "the way