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Author : Zenryū Tsukamoto
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001158000
Author : Zenryū Tsukamoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0870116460
Author : Kai Sheng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004431775
This book is a study of the formation and the practice of Buddhist canons and an attempt to present as fully as possible the panorama of Chinese Buddhist faith. The book uses textual and archaeological sources, including Dunhuang texts, and adopts multiple perspectives such as textual evidence, historical circumstances, social life, as well as the intellectual background at the time.
Author : Chün-fang Yü
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824881580
What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this book, the first introduction to Chinese Buddhism written expressly for students and those interested in an accessible yet authoritative overview of the subject based on current scholarship. After presenting the basic tenets of the Buddha’s teachings and the Chinese religious traditions, the book focuses on topics essential for understanding Chinese Buddhism: major scriptures, worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, rituals and festivals, the monastic order, Buddhist schools such as Tiantai and Chan, Buddhism and gender, and current trends—notably humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan and the resurgence of Buddhism in post-Mao China. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. A convenient glossary of common terms, titles, and names is included.
Author : In-Sub Hur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 1666944815
This book analyzes the process of the sinicization of Buddhism. It provides a comprehensive investigation on how the perceived similarities between Buddhism and Daoism originated and how traditional Daoist terminologies were applied.
Author : Erik J. Hammerstrom
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231539586
Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society. Examining dozens of previously unstudied writings from the Chinese Buddhist press, this book maps Buddhists' efforts to rethink their traditions through science in the initial decades of the twentieth century. Buddhists believed science offered an exciting, alternative route to knowledge grounded in empirical thought, much like their own. They encouraged young scholars to study subatomic and relativistic physics while still maintaining Buddhism's vital illumination of human nature and its crucial support of an ethical system rooted in radical egalitarianism. Showcasing the rich and progressive steps Chinese religious scholars took in adapting to science's rising authority, this volume offers a key perspective on how a major Eastern power transitioned to modernity in the twentieth century and how its intellectuals anticipated many of the ideas debated by scholars of science and Buddhism today.
Author : Kenneth Kuan Shêng Chʻen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691000152
A study of the history of Buddhism in China.
Author : Zenryū Tsukamoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0870116452
Author : Arthur F. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : April D. Hughes
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824888701
Although scholars have long assumed that early Chinese political authority was rooted in Confucianism, rulership in the medieval period was not bound by a single dominant tradition. To acquire power, emperors deployed objects and figures derived from a range of traditions imbued with religious and political significance. Author April D. Hughes demonstrates how dynastic founders like Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian, r. 690–705), the only woman to rule China under her own name, and Yang Jian (Emperor Wen, r. 581–604), the first ruler of the Sui dynasty, closely identified with Buddhist worldly saviors and Wheel-Turning Kings to legitimate their rule. During periods of upheaval caused by the decline of the Dharma, worldly saviors arrived on earth to quell chaos and to rule and liberate their subjects simultaneously. By incorporating these figures into the imperial system, sovereigns were able to depict themselves both as monarchs and as buddhas or bodhisattvas in uncertain times. In this inventive and original work, Hughes traces worldly saviors—in particular Maitreya Buddha and Prince Moonlight—as they appeared in apocalyptic scriptures from Dunhuang, claims to the throne made by various rebel leaders, and textual interpretations and assertions by Yang Jian and Wu Zhao. Yang Jian associated himself with Prince Moonlight and took on the persona of a Wheel-Turning King whose offerings to the Buddha were not flowers and incense but weapons of war to reunite a long-fragmented empire and revitalize the Dharma. Wu Zhao was associated with several different worldly savior figures. In addition, she saw herself as the incarnation of a Wheel-Turning King for whom it was said the Seven Treasures manifested as material representations of his right to rule. Wu Zhao duly had the Seven Treasures created and put on display whenever she held audiences at court. The worldly savior figure allowed rulers to inhabit the highest role in the religious realm along with the supreme role in the political sphere. This incorporation transformed notions of Chinese imperial sovereignty, and associating rulers with a buddha or bodhisattva continued long after the close of the medieval period.
Author : Erik Zürcher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047419426
At the repeated request of many scholars and students here is a new edition of E. Zürcher's groundbreaking The Buddhist Conquest of China. In his extensive introduction Stephen F. Teiser (D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies, Princeton University) explains why the book is still the standard in the field of early Chinese Buddhism.
Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Buddha and Buddhism
ISBN : WISC:89084490903
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : History
ISBN : 9785878189569
Probsthain's oriental series. Volume 7. A brief history of early Chinese philosophy
Author : Chuan Cheng
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443857789
Through detailed discussions of several Buddhist and Chinese moral concepts and beliefs and accompanied by some edifying short stories, this book investigates three types of ethical treatment of animals in early Chinese Buddhism: the imperial bans on animal sacrifice; the early development of the two unique and living traditions of vegetarianism; and the freeing of animals. The book presents a demonstration of the early Chinese acceptance of Indian Buddhism, providing the reader with a better understanding of the early history of Chinese Buddhism in general, and of the integration of Chinese and Indian Buddhist cultures in particular.
Author : Eric M. Greene
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824886875
What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. In sharp contrast to what would become typical in the later Chan School, early Chinese Buddhists approached the ancient Buddhist practice of meditation primarily as a way of gaining access to a world of enigmatic but potentially meaningful visionary experiences. In Chan Before Chan, Eric Greene brings this approach to meditation to life with a focus on how medieval Chinese Buddhists interpreted their own and others’ visionary experiences and the nature of the authority they ascribed to them. Drawing from hagiography, ritual manuals, material culture, and the many hitherto rarely studied meditation manuals translated from Indic sources into Chinese or composed in China in the 400s, Greene argues that during this era meditation and the mastery of meditation came for the first time to occupy a real place in the Chinese Buddhist social world. Heirs to wider traditions that had been shared across India and Central Asia, early medieval Chinese Buddhists conceived of “chan” as something that would produce a special state of visionary sensitivity. The concrete visionary experiences that resulted from meditation were understood as things that could then be interpreted, by a qualified master, as indicative of the mediator’s purity or impurity. Buddhist meditation, though an elite discipline that only a small number of Chinese Buddhists themselves undertook, was thus in practice and in theory constitutively integrated into the cultic worlds of divination and “repentance” (chanhui) that were so important within the medieval Chinese religious world as a whole.