Cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism /
In a demonstration of the value of interdisciplinary, culture-based approaches, 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...
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| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press
©2001.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqjjf |
Table of Contents:
- Religious functions of Buddhist art in China / T. Griffith Foulk
- Text, image, and transformation in the history of the Shuilu fahui, the Buddhist rite for deliverance of creatures of water and land / Daniel B. Stevenson
- Buddhist literati and literary monks / Amy McNair
- Through the empty gate / Beata Grant
- Imperial engagements with Buddhist art and architecture / Marsha Weidner
- Miracles in Nanjing / Patricia Berger
- Thangkas for the Qianlong Emperor's seventieth birthday / Terese Tse Bartholomew
- Beijing's Zhihua monastery / Kenneth J. Hammond.