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• Books (5)
• Readings (16)
• Audio/Video (5)
• Reference Shelf (1)
• Related Topics (3)

Books (5)

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

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

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

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

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (1886) – Fa Hsien

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Readings (16)

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• 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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Stūpa, Sūtra, and Śarīra in China, c. 656–706 CE (2001) – T. H. Barrett

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

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

Ethnicity and identity: Northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of Northern and Southern dynasties (2003) – Dorothy C. Wong

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

Claims of Buddhist Relics in the Eastern Han Tomb Murals at Horinger: Issues in the Historiography of the Introduction of Buddhism to China (2014) – Min-Ku Kim

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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Medieval Buddhism

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• Chinese Buddhist Writing (Course)