Pedestrian dharma: slowness and seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker

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
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
Subjects:
Buddhism and modernity
contemplative studies
kinhin
slow cinema
transnational Chinese cinema
Tsai Ming-Liang
walking meditation
Zen ritual
Film and Media Studies
Religion
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/52
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1051/viewcontent/religions_09_00200.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1051/viewcontent/religions_09_00200.pdf

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