Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher / edited by Jonathan A. Silk and Stefano Zacchetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silk, Jonathan A., editor.

Zacchetti, Stefano, 1968-2020, editor.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 157.

Sinica Leidensia Series ; Volume 157

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--China--History.

Buddhism.

Sinologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2023]

Summary:

Since Erik Zürcher's landmark Buddhist Conquest of China, the study of earlier phases of Chinese Buddhist history has made great progress with new materials, new interpretations and new problematizations. This volume brings together 12 contributions from the leading scholars in the field offering new perspectives on this old tradition.

China has a long and complex history of interactions with the world around it. One of the most successful imports—arguably the most successful before modern times and the impact of the West—is Buddhism, which, since the first centuries of the Common Era, has spread into almost every aspect of Chinese life, thought and practice. Erik Zürcher was one of the most important scholars to study the history of Buddhism in China, and the ways in which Buddhism in China gradually became Chinese Buddhism. More than half a century after the publication of Zürcher's landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China , we now have a collection of essays from the top contemporary specialists exploring aspects of the legacy of Zürcher's investigations, bringing forward new evidence, new ideas and reconsiderations of old theories to present an up-to-date and exciting expansion and revision of what was arguably the single most influential contribution to date on the history of Chinese Buddhism. Contributors are Tim Barrett, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Funayama Toru, Barend ter Haar, Liu Shufen, Minku Kim, Jan Nattier, Antonello Palumbo, and Nicolas Standaert.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Illustrations and Tables

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 A Unique Trajectory: Erik Zürcher's Studies of Chinese Buddhism

Chapter 2 The Archaeology of Early Chinese Buddhism: Rethinking "Han Buddhism and the Western Region"

Chapter 3 The "Missing Majority": Dao'an's Anonymous Scriptures Revisited

Chapter 4 Features of the Underlying Language of Zhi Qian's Chinese Translation of the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa

Chapter 5 No Room at the Inn: The Brief Daoist Experiment with Buddhist Notions of Self

Chapter 6 Buddhist Monks and Oral Performance

Chapter 7 Jizang's 吉 Sanskrit

Chapter 8 The Waning Years of the Eminent Monk Xuanzang and his Deification in China and Japan

Chapter 9 Blind Spots and One-Way Tracks in Chinese Buddhist Historiography

Chapter 10 Buddhism in Premodern China and Its Periodization: In Search of a New Narrative

Chapter 11 Middle Kingdom and Wider Buddhist World: Introducing Some Neglected Sources from Late Imperial and Modern China

Chapter 12 Erik Zürcher's Study of Christianity in Seventeenth-Century China: An Intellectual Portrait

Appendix Corrigenda to Zürcher's "Han Buddhism and the Western Region"

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Silk, Jonathan A. Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher

ISBN:

9789004522152

9004522158

OCLC:

1351200512

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004522152 DOI