The Sinification of Buddhism as Found in an Early Chinese Indigenous Sūtra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sinification of Buddhism as Found in an Early Chinese Indigenous Sūtra write by Harumi Hirano Ziegler. This book was released on 2001. The Sinification of Buddhism as Found in an Early Chinese Indigenous Sūtra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ancient India and Ancient China
Ancient India and Ancient China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient India and Ancient China write by Xinru Liu. This book was released on 1988. Ancient India and Ancient China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. India and China are two of the most important civilizations of the ancient world. Looking at the relations between these empires before the 6th century A.D., Xinru Liu conclusively establishes the transmission of Buddhism from India to China, and describes the various items of commercial trade.
Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism
Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism write by Peter N. Gregory. This book was released on 2002-04-30. Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.
The Flower of Chinese Buddhism
The Flower of Chinese Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flower of Chinese Buddhism write by Daisaku Ikeda. This book was released on 2012-03-01. The Flower of Chinese Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with the introduction of the religion into China, this chronicle depicts the evolution of Buddhism. The career and achievements of the great Kumarajiva are investigated, exploring the famed philosophical treatises that form the core of East Asian Buddhist literature. Providing a useful and accessible introduction to the influential Tien-t'ai school of Buddhism in Japan as well as the teachings of the 13th-century monk Nichiren, this examination places special emphasis on the faith of the Lotus Sutra and the major works of masters such as Hui-su, Chih-i, and Chanjan. From the early translations of the Buddhist scriptures to the persecution of the T'ang dynasty, this exploration illuminates the role of Buddhism in Chinese society, and by extension, in humanity in general.
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade write by Tansen Sen. This book was released on 2015-09-11. Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries. The unfolding of this transformation, its causes, and wider ramifications are examined in this masterful analysis of the changing patterns of the interaction between the two most important cultural spheres in Asia. Tansen Sen offers a new perspective on Sino-Indian relations during the Tang dynasty (618–907), arguing that the period is notable not only for religious and diplomatic exchanges but also for the process through which China emerged as a center of Buddhist learning, practice, and pilgrimage. Before the seventh century, the Chinese clergy—given the spatial gap between the sacred Buddhist world of India and the peripheral China—suffered from a “borderland complex.” A close look at the evolving practice of relic veneration in China (at Famen Monastery in particular), the exposition of Mount Wutai as an abode of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and the propagation of the idea of Maitreya’s descent in China, however, reveals that by the eighth century China had overcome its complex and successfully established a Buddhist realm within its borders. The emergence of China as a center of Buddhism had profound implications on religious interactions between the two countries and is cited by Sen as one of the main causes for the weakening of China’s spiritual attraction toward India. At the same time, the growth of indigenous Chinese Buddhist schools and teachings retrenched the need for doctrinal input from India. A detailed examination of the failure of Buddhist translations produced during the Song dynasty (960–1279), demonstrates that these developments were responsible for the unraveling of religious bonds between the two countries and the termination of the Buddhist phase of Sino-Indian relations. Sen proposes that changes in religious interactions were paralleled by changes in commercial exchanges. For most of the first millennium, trading activities between India and China were closely connected with and sustained through the transmission of Buddhist doctrines. The eleventh and twelfth centuries, however, witnessed dramatic changes in the patterns and structure of mercantile activity between the two countries. Secular bulk and luxury goods replaced Buddhist ritual items, maritime channels replaced the overland Silk Road as the most profitable conduits of commercial exchange, and many of the merchants involved were followers of Islam rather than Buddhism. Moreover, policies to encourage foreign trade instituted by the Chinese government and the Indian kingdoms contributed to the intensification of commercial activity between the two countries and transformed the China-India trading circuit into a key segment of cross-continental commerce.
