Cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism
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Cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism
University of Hawaii Press, c2001
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
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  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
"This volume began with a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition 'Latter days of the law : images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850' at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in 1994."--Acknowledgments
Contents of Works
- Introduction: Cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism / Marsha Weidner
- Religious functions of Buddhist art in China / T. Griffith Foulk
- Text, image, and transformation in the history of the Shuilu fahui, the Buddhist rite for deliverance of creatures of water and land / Daniel B. Stevenson
- Buddhist literati and literary monks : social and religious elements in the critical reception of Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy / Amy McNair
- Through the empty gate : the poetry of Buddhist nuns in later imperial China / Beata Grant
- Imperial engagements with Buddhist art and architecture : Ming variations on an old theme / Marsha Weidner
- Miracles in Nanjing : an imperial record of the Fifth Karmapa's visit to the Chinese capital / Patricia Berger
- Thangkas for the Qianlong Emperor's seventieth birthday / Terese Tse Bartholomew
- Beijing's Zhihua Monastery : history and restoration in China's capital / Kenneth J. Hammond
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays on ""later"" Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.
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