ISBN:
9789004250932
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xii, 675 p.)
Serie:
Sinica Leidensia 112
Paralleltitel:
Print version Buddhism in China
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Zürcher, Erik, 1928 - 2008 Buddhism in China
DDC:
951
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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China
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Geschichte 1911-
Kurzfassung:
"Buddhism in China" gathers for the first time Erik Zürcher's most central papers on Chinese Buddhism, dealing with the translation and language of Buddhist scriptures, interactions with Daoist traditions, activities of Buddhists below elite social levels, and typological comparisons with Christianity
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Late Han Vernacular Elements in the Earliest Buddhist Translations; Life of the Buddha; Buddhism in a Pre-Modern Bureaucratic Empire: The Chinese Experience; Buddhist Influence on Early Daoism: A Survey of Scriptural Evidence; Eschatology and Messianism in Early Chinese Buddhism; "Prince Moonlight" Messianism and Eschatology in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism; Perspectives in the Study of Chinese Buddhism; Mahā-Cīna: The Buddhist Reinterpretation of the History of China; Buddhism and Education in Tang Times
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Culture in an Historical PerspectiveHan Buddhism and the Western Region; The Spread of Buddhism and Christianity in Imperial China: Spontaneous Diffusion Versus Guided Propagation; Nuns and Convents in Old Chinese Buddhism; A New Look at the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Texts; New Preface to the Buddhist Conquest of China; Obscure Texts on Favourite Topics. Dao'an's Anonymous Scriptures; Buddhist Art in Medieval China: The Ecclesiastical View; Vernacular Elements in Early Buddhist Texts: An Attempt to Define the Optimal Source Materials
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Foreign InputXu Guangqi and Buddhism; Tidings from the South Chinese Court Buddhism and Overseas Relations in the Fifth Century CE; Buddhist Chanhui and Christian Confession in Seventeenth-Century China; Reviews; R. Robinson, Early Mādhyamika in India and China (1967); Mélanges de sinologie offerts à Monsieur Paul Demiéville II (1974); Timothy Brook, Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China (1993); Kuo Li-ying, Confession et contrition dans le bouddhisme chinois du Ve au Xe siècle (1994)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Antonino Forte, The Hostage An Shigao and his Offspring: An Iranian Family in China (1995)Index of Names and Places; Index of Text Titles; Index of Buddhist Technical Terms; Index of Linguistic Phenomena
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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