Michel Dijkstra
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michel Dijkstra plays a role.
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2022 How is this sutra different from my ass? Humour as a gateway to enlightenment in Zen Buddhism Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, Dijkstra, Roald and Paul van der Velde (eds.), pp. 222–234 | Chapter
In Zen Buddhism humour is used in a soteriological way. Zen masters confront their disciples with (practical) jokes in order to free their minds and discover enlightenment. In this essay, I investigate the humour of enlightenment by first pointing out the influence of Daoist humoristic stories… read more