Studies on East Asian Religions – serie
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Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism
Av Yael Bentor
Inbunden, 2017
2283 kr
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Bringing together leading authorities in the fields of Chinese and Tibetan Studies alike, Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism engages cutting-edge research on the fertile tradition of Esoteric Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism). This state of the art volume unfolds the sweeping impact of …
Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2020
2244 kr
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The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai explores the pan-East Asian significance of sacred Mount Wutai from the Northern Dynasties to the present day. Offering novel readings of comparatively familiar visual and textual sources and, in many cases, examining unstudied or understudied noncanonical …
History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life
Av Kai Sheng
Inbunden, 2020
3039 kr
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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 …
Gongga Laoren (1903-1997)
Her Role in the Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan
Inbunden, 2021
1759 kr
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Through the biography of an unusual Manchu Chinese female devotee who contributed to the spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan, the book provides a new angle at looking at Sino-Tibetan relations by bringing issues of gender, power, self-representation, and globalization. Gongga Laoren’s life, …
Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages
Av Ester Bianchi, Weirong Shen
Inbunden, 2021
2336 kr
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This book introduces the reader to different cases of cultural intersections between Tibet and China in the field of Buddhism. The ten chapters provide a series of insights into Sino-Tibetan exchanges within religious practices and doctrines, material culture and iconography.Spanning from …
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
Av Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn
Inbunden, 2022
1775 kr
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Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across …
Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism
Av Ru Zhan, Jinhua Chen
Inbunden, 2023
2687 kr
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Drawing on Dunhuang manuscripts and the latest scholarship in Dunhuang and Buddhist Studies, this translation analyzes Buddhist monasticism via such topics as the organizational forms of Dunhuang Buddhist monasteries, the construction and operation of ordination platforms, ordination certificates …
"Take the Vinaya as Your Master"
Monastic Discipline and Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Av Ester Bianchi, Daniela Campo
Inbunden, 2023
1814 kr
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This volume explores the role played by monastic discipline in the emergence and evolution of modern Chinese Buddhism. A central feature of the Buddhist tradition, monastic discipline has received growing attention in the contemporary Buddhist world, but little from scholars. Adopting a diachronic …
Learning from the West, Learning from the East: The Emergence of the Study of Buddhism in Japan and Europe before 1900
Av Stephan Kigensan Licha, Hans-Martin Krämer
Inbunden, 2023
1762 kr
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The essays collected in this volume for the first time foreground the fundamental role Asian actors played in the formation of scholarly knowledge on Buddhism and the emergence of Buddhist studies as an academic discipline in Europe and Asia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The …
Awakening of the Hinterland: The Formation of Regional Vinaya Traditions in Tang China
Inbunden, 2024
1584 kr
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This volume explores the dissemination of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618–907) in the context of the dispersal of the state bureaucracy throughout the empire and the changing centre–periphery dynamics.The tradition’s development in China during the Tang Dynasty has …
Beyond the Silk and Book Roads
Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture
Av Michelle C. Wang, Ryan Richard Overbey
Inbunden, 2023
1877 kr
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Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a “book,” and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Featuring new …
Postponement in Perpetuality: the Buddha’s Prophecy of the End of Buddhism and Its Transmission in East Asia
Av Yi Liu, Jinhua Chen
Inbunden, 2025
2094 kr
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The Buddha prophesied that his teachings would vanish a few hundred years after his passing, creating an existential dilemma for Chinese Buddhists on the brink of Buddhism’s disappearance.This book examines the origins of this prophecy and the famie 法灭 (‘end of Buddhism’) belief in Indian and …
Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life
Av Benjamin Brose, James A. Benn
Inbunden, 2025
2061 kr
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How do the inner convictions of individuals clash and sometimes cohere with the ideologies of their times? This volume investigates the interior lives of Chinese religious practitioners from the tenth century to the present to explore their dreams, visions, and personal struggles. The reader will …
Inter-Religious Court Debates in the Early Tang Dynasty
A Translation of Reports of Nine Public Debates Between Buddhists and Daoists From Daoxuan’s Ji gujin Fo Dao lunheng (T 2104)
Inbunden, 2025
1283 kr
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Public debate between representatives of different teachings was an important element in the formation of medieval intellectual culture; but documentation is scarce. Daoxuan’s reports are unique as they afford us a vivid glimpse on the debates held at the courts of the early Tang, including …
Religion of the Han Empire
Postmortem Transformation, Immortality, and the Rise of Daoism
Av Sheng Jiang
Inbunden, 2025
1901 kr
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By examining the tomb images and artifacts from a religious perspective, combined with a cognitive approach that strives to uncover the essentials of the Han belief system, the author convincingly shows how Han belief represented the dimension of faith in the national power structure while …
