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.

A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life

Author: Kai Sheng

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-06-15

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9004431772

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The goal of this book is to study the ways in which Chinese Buddhists expressed their religious faiths and how Chinese Buddhists interacted with society at large since the Northern and Southern dynasties (386-589), through the Ming (1368-1644) and the Qing (1644-1911), up to the Republican era (1912-1949). The book aims to summarize and present the historical trajectory of the Sinification of Buddhism in a new light, revealing the symbiotic relationship between Buddhist faith and Chinese culture. The book examines cases such as repentance, vegetarianism, charity, scriptural lecture, the act of releasing captive animals, the Bodhisattva faith, and mountain worship, from multiple perspectives such as textual evidence, historical circumstances, social life, as well as the intellectual background at the time.

Chinese Religious Art
Chinese Religious Art

Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780739180587

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Daoism has an elaborate pantheon and ritualistic art, as well as a secular tradition best expressed in monochrome ink painting. Part Four covers the development of Buddhist art beginning with its entry into China in the second century. Its monuments--comprised largely of cave temples carved high in the mountains along the frontiers of China and large metropolitan temples --