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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism, 2014

Poceski, Mario. “Buddhism in Chinese History.” Mario Poceski, ed. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014: 40–62.

SD 40b.3 How Buddhism Became Chinese, 2008

Some new directions in Chinese Buddhism by Piya Tan ©2008 (2 nd rev), 2009 (3 rd rev) 6.1 CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES 6.1.1 Robert Sharf, in his important "Prolegomenon to the study of medieval Chinese Buddhist literature" (2002:1-27), raises some vital issues in the study of Chinese Buddhism, which is often riddled with historical and hermeneutical problems. Some of his observations are summarized here. Firstly, the claim that Kumārajva's translations were more "accurate" than those of his predecessors is problematic. The popularity of Kumārajva's translations was not due to their fidelity to the originals, but rather to the elegance and accessibility of his prose. As such, Kumārajva's translations continued to be favoured long after the more technically accurate translations of Xuánzàng were available (2002:12). The various so called Chinese "schools" of Buddhism are not really discrete entities. Such traditions as Sānlún (三論) (the "Three-treatise" of Madhyamika), Dìlún (地論) (the Yogācāra,bhūmi school) and Shèlún (攝論) (the Mahāyāna,saṅgraha school) are better regarded as "organizational categories applied after the fact by mediaeval Buddhist historians and bibliographers" (2002: 7). The notion that the Táng dynasty was the golden age of Buddhism in general and Chán in particular turns out to be the product of Sòng Chán polemicists:

Buddhist Studies Review

Zhipan’s Account of the History of Buddhism in China vol.1: Fozu tongji, juan 34-38: From the Times of the Buddha to the Nanbeichao Era, by Thomas Jülch. Brill. 2019. X + 316pp. €116/$140. ISBN: 978-90-04-39620-3.

This paper describes the difference of the vinaya in ancient Indian Buddhism to that of Chinese Buddhism.

Chinese Studies in the 21st Century: proceedings of International scientific confer-ence (Ulan-Ude, October 12, 2021), 2021

This article examines the process of compiling general histories (Ch. tongshi, J. tsu:shi 通史) of Chinese Buddhism during the contemporary period. As the study showed, for a significant part of the twentieth century, Japanese scholars played a leading role in revealing the overall picture of the history of Buddhism in China. Academic circles first in Taiwan and then in mainland China translated a number of Japanese works into Chinese. Since the 1980s, China witnessed an upsurge of domestic research, with several multivolume general histories published in the twenty first century.

The present essay is focused on assessing the impact of Buddhism on the culture and society of Medieval China. The first part will address the impact of Buddhist religious ideas on the culture and society of medieval China. The second part will focus on the Buddhist sacred power impact on the culture and society of medieval China. The historical framework of the present essay will situate Medieval China in the period from 220 CE to 960 CE.

I review a book.

This article focuses on the relationship between the controversial late-Ming playwright Tu Long and the contemporaneous Tiantai school of Buddhism represented by Youxi Chuandeng. It aims to contribute on the one hand to studies of Tu Long, which have paid little attention to Tu's connection with Tiantai, and on the other hand to studies of Chuandeng and the late Ming Tiantai revival, which have not yet explored the nexus between Chuandeng's philosophical teachings and his social network. I argue that it is most likely through Tiantai Buddhism, rather than "mad Chan" or Yangming philosophy, that Tu justified his antinomian deeds. This case study of Tu Long indicates that the success of the Tiantai school in the late Ming may be attributed to its fulfillment of the literati appetite for reading and writing, as well as to its tolerance of their unconventional lifestyle and syncretic spirituality. Unveiling some disagreements between Tu and Yunqi Zhuhong, whom many regard as Tu's guru, this paper highlights the agency of a lay Buddhist amid the tensions between rival schools and teachers.

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