Pedestrian Dharma: Slowness and Seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker

This paper studies the ways that Walker, a short film by the Malaysian-Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, visualizes the relationship between Buddhism and modernity. Via detailed film analysis as well as attention to sources in premodern Buddhist traditions, this paper argues that its filmic performa...

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Main Author: Ng, Teng-Kuan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-19
Further subjects:B Zen ritual
B Tsai Ming-Liang
B slow cinema
B Contemplative Studies
B kinhin
B walking meditation
B Buddhism and modernity
B transnational Chinese cinema
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