The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Poceski, Mario

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Produktbeschreibung

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed and is practiced in this region. These newly-commissioned essays provide fresh scholarly perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, and practices. * Offers a comprehensive and balanced survey of Buddhism within East and Central Asia, from the time of the Buddha through to the present day * Provides fresh perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, traditions, doctrines, practices, and institutions - on topics spanning gender roles, tantric rituals, and the spread of Zen into Europe * Brings together cutting-edge research by an interdisciplinary and international contributor team, including historians, literature scholars, and historians, as well as those from religious studies * Presents a panoramic view of the extraordinary richness and variety of local Buddhist expressions and practices within Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Tibetan, cultures

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118610350
• Artikelnr.: 40515024

Autorenporträt

Mario Poceski is Associate Professor of Buddhist studies and Chinese religions at the University of Florida. He has spent extended periods as a visiting researcher at Komazawa University, Japan, Stanford University, National University of Singapore, and University of Hamburg, Germany. A specialist in the history of Chinese Buddhism and a recipient of several prestigious fellowships, his numerous books include Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism (2007) and Introducing Chinese Religions (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Past and Present Intersections 1
Mario Poceski
Part I Patterns of Historical Growth 19
1 Buddhism in Central Asian History 21
Mariko Namba Walter
2 Buddhism in Chinese History 40
Mario Poceski
3 Buddhism in Korean History 63
Sem Vermeersch
4 Buddhism in Japanese History 84
Heather Blair
5 Buddhism in Tibetan History 104
James B. Apple
Part II Traditions and Doctrines 125
6 Tiantai Integrations of Doctrine and Practice 127
Haiyan Shen
7 Huayan Explorations of the Realm of Reality 145
Imre Hamar
8 Chan/Zen Conceptions of Orthodoxy 166
Albert Welter
9 Tibetan Formulations of the Tantric Path 185
David B. Gray
Part III Popular Practices 199
10 Pure Land Devotion in East Asia 201
Jimmy Yu
11 Bodhisattva Cults in Chinese Buddhism 221
Natasha Heller
12 Funerary Rituals in Japanese Buddhism 239
Nam-lin Hur
13 Pilgrimage in Japanese Buddhism 259
Hendrik van der Veere
14 Healing in Tibetan Buddhism 278
Geoffrey Samuel
Part IV Institutions and Interactions 297
15 East Asian Transformations of Monasticism 299
Huaiyu Chen
16 Nuns and Laywomen in East Asian Buddhism 318
Lori Meeks
17 Buddhist-Daoist Interactions in Medieval China 340
Livia Kohn
Part V Writings and Arts 361
18 The Chinese Buddhist Canon 363
Jiang Wu
19 The Tibetan Buddhist Canon 383
Phillip Stanley
20 Buddhism and Poetry in East Asia 408
Beata Grant
21 Buddhist Art and Architecture in East Asia 424
Michelle C. Wang
Part VI Buddhism in the Modern World 445
22 Buddhism in Modern Japan 447
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley
23 Buddhism in Modern Korea 466
Pori Park
24 Buddhism in Contemporary Europe 485
Inken Prohl
25 Buddhism in the Digital World 505
Morten Schlütter
Index 523