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• Books (5)
• Documents (15)
• Audio/Video (5)
• Reference Shelf (1)
• Subtopics (1)

Books (5)

The Poetry of Meng Haoran (2021) – Paul W. Kroll

Li Bo Unkempt (2020) – Kidder Smith and Mike Zhai

An Early Chinese Commentary on the Ekottarika-Āgama (2013) – Antonello Palumbo

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (1886) – Fa Hsien

Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits (1993) – Bill Porter

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Documents (15)

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• Stūpa, Sūtra, and Śarīra in China, c. 656–706 CE (2001) – T. H. Barrett
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  what was the religious environment that encouraged the spread of the new technology of printing in late seventh century China?

  64 pages

  pdf pdf
• The Ritual of Arhat Invitation during the Song Dynasty: Why did Mahāyānists Venerate the Arhat? (2007) – Ryan Bongseok Joo
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  it appears contradictory that Chinese who follow the teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism have worshipped arhats. […] who was the arhat for Chinese Buddhists?

  36 pages

  Online pdf

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The Doctrine of the Buddha-Nature in the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-Sūtra (1982) – Ming-Wood Liu

Why don’t We Translate Spells in the Scriptures?: Medieval Chinese Exegesis on the Meaning and Function of Dhāraṇī Language (2019) – Ryan Richard Overbey

Syncretism reconsidered: The Four Eminent Monks and their syncretistic styles (2006) – William Chu

The Light-Emitting Image of Magadha in Tang Buddhist Art (2020) – Dorothy C. Wong

Faxian and the Establishment of the Pilgrimage Tradition of Qiufa (Dharma-searching) (2019) – Ji Yun 紀贇

Yung-Ming’s Syncretism of Pure Land and Ch’an (1987) – Heng-ching Shih

The Influence of Chinese Master Taixu on Buddhism in Vietnam (2009) – Elise A. DeVido

Translation, Transcription, and What Else?: Some Basic Characteristics of Chinese Buddhist Translation as a Cultural Contact between India and China, with Special Reference to Sanskrit ārya and Chinese shèng (2019) – Toru Funayama

The Early History of the Chan Tradition (2005) – Peter Hershock

Through the Mirror: The Account of Other Minds in Chinese Yogācāra Buddhism (2019) – Jingjing Li

Buddhism’s Maritime Route to China (2009) – Charles Willemen

Devil’s Valley to Omega Point: Reflections on the Emergence of a Theme from the Nō (1992) – T. H. Barrett

Dòngshān’s World of Shìh 事 and Lǐ 理 (1971) – Chang Chung-Yuan

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Audio/Video (5)

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• Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China (2015) – Stuart Young

  How medieval, Chinese Buddhists took the scholar monks of India as their role model for preserving the Dharma, eventually enabling Chinese Buddhism to flourish in its new context.

  1h 11m

  Online

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Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (2021) – April D. Hughes

Buddhist Historiography in China (2022) – John Kieschnick

Chinese Buddhist Cave Shrines (2009)

The Affect of Textuality (2011) – Daniel Veidlinger

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Reference Shelf (1)

The Electronic Atlas of Buddhist Monasteries of Asia between approx. 200 and 1200 CE. (2009) – Stewart Gordon, T. Matthew Ciolek, Lizabeth H. Piel, and Gita Gunatilleke

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Subtopics (1)

• Chinese Buddhist Writing (Course)