East Asian Buddhism

Author : Richard K. Payne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861714872

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Tantric Buddhism in East Asia by Richard K. Payne Pdf

Although Indian and Tibetan versions of tantric Buddhism are increasingly recognized, the East Asian variations on this practice remain largely overlooked. The only book to present the entire breadth of tantric Buddhism in East Asia, this collection remedies that situation with 12 key essays drawn from rare sources. Organized into four sections--China and Korea, Japan, Deities and Practices, and Influences on Japanese Religion--the book brings together a "critical mass" of scholarship, with the potential to create a sea change in the understanding of this subject

Author : John McRae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0415391342

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East Asian Buddhism by John McRae Pdf

In the first or second century CE, Chinese officials began to hear rumours of a powerful new deity somewhere in the far off ‘western region’. Golden hued, able to fly through the air, and of superhuman size, he was the source of unspeakable power. The Chinese Emperor sent out an exploratory expedition, images of the Buddha began to appear at court, and thus began the gradual spread of Buddhism through East Asia; from India to China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan. This book presents an up-to-date introduction to Buddhism in East Asia, taking a timely regional focus and covering history, geography and culture, doctrine and texts, practice and tradition. Written by a leading scholar, it surveys the field by means of vivid and accessible explanations made readily understandable by features such as boxed summaries, charts and timelines, a glossary, further reading lists and illustrations. The regional focus and the stress on practice and material culture is in tune with contemporary research in the field and brings the East Asian Buddhist world enjoyably to life.

Author : Ann Heirman,Carmen Meinert,Christoph Anderl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004366152

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Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia by Ann Heirman,Carmen Meinert,Christoph Anderl Pdf

Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia offers a fascinating picture of the intricacies of regional and cross-regional networks and the complexity of Buddhist identities emerging across Asia.

Author : Robert H. Scott,James McRae
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438492438

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Introduction to Buddhist East Asia by Robert H. Scott,James McRae Pdf

This anthology provides an accessible introduction to East Asian Buddhism, focusing specifically on China, Korea, and Japan. It begins with a detailed historical introduction that includes an overview of the development of the various schools of Buddhism in East Asia and traces the transmission of Buddhism from Northwest India to China in the first century CE, and then to Korea and Japan in the fourth and sixth centuries CE. The first part of the book contains five chapters that offer creative pedagogies that can help college professors infuse East Asian Buddhism into their courses. The second part includes six interdisciplinary chapters that explore thematic links between East Asian Buddhism and religious studies, philosophy, film studies, literature, and environmental studies.

Author : Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824874490

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Currents and Countercurrents by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. Pdf

Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic missionary movement spreading outward from the Buddhist homeland of India across the Asian continent is just one part of the story. The case of East Asian Buddhism suggests another tale, one in which the dominant eastward current of diffusion creates important eddies, or countercurrents, of influence that redound back toward the center. These countercurrents have had significant, even profound, impact on neighboring traditions. In East Asia perhaps the most important countercurrent of influence came from Korea, the focus of this volume. Chapters examine the role played by the Paekche kingdom in introducing Buddhist material culture (especially monastic architecture) to Japan and the impact of Korean scholiasts on the creation of several distinctive features that eventually came to characterize Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. The lives and intellectual importance of the monks Sungnang (fl. ca. 490) and Wonch’uk (613–696) are reassessed, bringing to light their role in the development of early intellectual schools within Chinese Buddhism. Later chapters discuss the influential teachings of the semi-legendary master Musang (684–762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch’an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T’ient’ai tradition; and the Huiyin monastery.

Author : Sujung Kim
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824877996

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Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean” by Sujung Kim Pdf

This ambitious work offers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myōjin, the “god of Silla” worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries. Sujung Kim challenges the long-held understanding of Shinra Myōjin as a protective deity of the Tendai Jimon school, showing how its worship emerged and developed in the complex networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean”—a “quality” rather than a physical space defined by Kim as the primary conduit for cross-cultural influence in a region that includes the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the East China Sea, and neighboring coastal areas. While focusing on the transcultural worship of the deity, Kim engages the different maritime arrangements in which Shinra Myōjin circulated: first, the network of Korean immigrants, Chinese merchants, and Japanese Buddhist monks in China’s Shandong peninsula and Japan’s Ōmi Province; and second, that of gods found in the East Asian Mediterranean. Both of these networks became nodal points of exchange of both goods and gods. Kim’s examination of temple chronicles, literary writings, and iconography reveals Shinra Myōjin’s evolution from a seafaring god to a multifaceted one whose roles included the god of pestilence and of poetry, the insurer of painless childbirth, and the protector of performing arts. Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean” is not only the first monograph in any language on the Tendai Jimon school in Japanese Buddhism, but also the first book-length study in English to examine Korean connections in medieval Japanese religion. Unlike other recent studies on individual Buddhist deities, it foregrounds the need to approach them within a broader East Asian context. By shifting the paradigm from a land-centered vision to a sea-centered one, the work underlines the importance of a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach to the study of Buddhist deities.

Author : Daniel Cozort,James Mark Shields
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198746140

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The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics by Daniel Cozort,James Mark Shields Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the study of Buddhist ethics in the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert H. Sharf
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824861940

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Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism by Robert H. Sharf Pdf

The issue of sinification—the manner and extent to which Buddhism and Chinese culture were transformed through their mutual encounter and dialogue—has dominated the study of Chinese Buddhism for much of the past century. Robert Sharf opens this important and far-reaching book by raising a host of historical and hermeneutical problems with the encounter paradigm and the master narrative on which it is based. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism is, among other things, an extended reflection on the theoretical foundations and conceptual categories that undergird the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism. Sharf draws his argument in part from a meticulous historical, philological, and philosophical analysis of the Treasure Store Treatise (Pao-tsang lun), an eighth-century Buddho-Taoist work apocryphally attributed to the fifth-century master Seng-chao (374–414). In the process of coming to terms with this recondite text, Sharf ventures into all manner of subjects bearing on our understanding of medieval Chinese Buddhism, from the evolution of T’ang "gentry Taoism" to the pivotal role of image veneration and the problematic status of Chinese Tantra. The volume includes a complete annotated translation of the Treasure Store Treatise, accompanied by the detailed exegesis of dozens of key terms and concepts.

Author : Jiang Wu,Lucille Chia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231540193

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Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia by Jiang Wu,Lucille Chia Pdf

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation to the development of East Asian Buddhist culture and enlivens Chinese Buddhist texts for readers interested in the evolution of Chinese writing and the Confucian and Daoist traditions. The collection undertakes extensive readings of major scriptural catalogs from the early manuscript era as well as major printed editions, including the Kaibao Canon, Qisha Canon, Goryeo Canon, and Taisho Canon. Contributors add fascinating depth to such understudied issues as the historical process of compilation, textual manipulation, physical production and management, sponsorship, the dissemination of various editions, cultic activities surrounding the canon, and the canon's reception in different East Asian societies. The Chinese Buddhist canon is one of the most enduring textual traditions in East Asian religion and culture, and through this exhaustive, multifaceted effort, an essential body of work becomes part of a new, versatile narrative of East Asian Buddhism that has far-reaching implications for world history.

Author : Uri Kaplan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004407886

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Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia by Uri Kaplan Pdf

This book examines the Buddhist responses to the Neo-Confucian critiques of their tradition. It presents full translations of two dominant Buddhist apologetic essays—the Hufa lun, written by a Chinese politician, and the Yusŏk chirŭi non, authored by a Korean monk.

Author : Charles Orzech,Henrik Sørensen,Richard Payne
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1223 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004184916

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Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia by Charles Orzech,Henrik Sørensen,Richard Payne Pdf

This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era to the present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : 지문당
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015070835346

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Korean Buddhism in East Asian Perspectives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sukumar Dutt
Publisher : Low Price Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN : 8188629278

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Buddhism in East Asia by Sukumar Dutt Pdf

Author : Stephanie Balkwill,James A. Benn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004510227

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Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia by Stephanie Balkwill,James A. Benn Pdf

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 premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their texts, material culture, ideas, and institutions legitimated rulers and defended regimes across the region. The volume also reveals a history of Buddhist writing, protest, and rebellion against the state. Contributors are Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn, Megan Bryson, Gregory N. Evon, Geoffrey C. Goble, Richard D. McBride II, and Jacqueline I. Stone.

Author : Daniel A. Getz,Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824826817

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Buddhism in the Sung by Daniel A. Getz,Peter N. Gregory Pdf

New paperback edition The Sung Dynasty (960–1279) has long been recognized as a major watershed in Chinese history. Although there are recent major monographs on Sung society, government, literature, Confucian thought, and popular religion, the contribution of Buddhism to Sung social and cultural life has been all but ignored. Indeed, the study of Buddhism during the Sung has lagged behind that of other periods of Chinese history. One reason for the neglect of this important aspect of Sung society is undoubtedly the tenacity of the view that the Sung marked the beginning of an inexorable decline of Buddhism in China that extended down through the remainder of the imperial era. As this book attests, however, new research suggests that, far from signaling a decline, the Sung was a period of great efflorescence in Buddhism. This volume is the first extended scholarly treatment of Buddhism in the Sung to be published in a Western language. It focuses largely on elite figures, elite traditions, and interactions among Buddhists and literati, although some of the book’s essays touch on ways in which elite traditions both responded to and helped shape more popular forms of lay practice and piety. All of the chapters in one way or another deal with the two most important elite traditions within Sung Buddhism: Ch’an and T’ien-t’ai. Whereas most previous discussions of Buddhism in the Sung have tended to concentrate on Ch’an, the present volume is notable for giving T’ien-t’ai its due. By presenting a broader and more contextualized picture of these two traditions as they developed in the Sung, this work amply reveals the vitality of Buddhism in the Sung as well as its embeddedness in the social and intellectual life of the time.