附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.
Part 1: (Anti- )theory -- Proust and the bonsai tree: theories of art Western and Eastern -- Reading emptiness: Proust with Nagarjuna and Dogen Zenji -- The Karmic text: Buddhism and translation -- Part 2: Practice -- Lafcadio Hearn, decadence, and the dream of Buddhist Japan.