Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism
Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism

Author: Marsha Smith Weidner

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780824823085

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This collection of essays on later Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.

Buddhism in China
Buddhism in China

Author: Kenneth Kuan Shêng Chʻen

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 0691000158

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A study of the history of Buddhism in China.

Buddhism in China
Buddhism in China

Author: Erik Zürcher

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9004263292

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Buddhism in China gathers together for the first time the most central and influential papers of the great scholar of Chinese Buddhism, Erik Zürcher, presenting the results of his career-long profound studies following on the 1959 publication of his landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China. The translation and language of Buddhist scriptures in China, Buddhist interactions with Daoist traditions, the activities of Buddhists below elite social levels, continued interactions with Central Asia and lands to the west, and typological comparisons with Christianity are only some of the themes explored here. Presenting some of the most important studies on Buddhism in China, especially in the earlier periods, ever published, it will thus be of interest to a wide variety of readers.