She Who Laughs Loudest: A Meditation on Zen Humor

Articulating a Zen Buddhist perspective on humor, this paper examines the Japanese Zen Buddhist response of humor in the face of the suffering of situated existence and the motivations for this response. The examination will take the school of Rinzai Zen Buddhism as its exemplar. I argue that in ord...

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Main Author: Andrew Whitehead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kennesaw State University 2015-03-01
Series:Journal of Global Initiatives
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jgi/vol9/iss1/4/
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