The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva

Zhiru Ng

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 21
• In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang... Lees meer

Gregory

Daniel A. Getz Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 30
• New paperback edition The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) has long been recognized as a major watershed in Chinese history. Although there are recent major mo... Lees meer

The Eminent Monk

John Kieschnick

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 10
• In an attempt to reconstruct an elusive aspect of the medieval Chinese imagination, The Eminent Monk examines biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks, f... Lees meer

Gregory

Peter N Gregory

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 16
• 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, w... Lees meer

Burning for the Buddha

James A Benn

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 37
• Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It exa... Lees meer

How Zen Became Zen

Morten Schlutter

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 22
• How Zen Became Zen takes a novel approach to understanding one of the most crucial developments in Zen Buddhism: the dispute over the nature of enligh... Lees meer

Right Thoughts at the Last Moment

Jacqueline I Stone

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 26
• Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explor... Lees meer

Dо̄gen Studies

William R. LaFleur

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 42
• The induction of Dо̄gen into the modern academic world, or per-haps more accurately, the academic world's first real engagement with Dо̄gen came about... Lees meer

Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Jacqueline I Stone

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 31
• Original enlightenment thought (hongaku shiso) dominated Buddhist intellectual circles throughout Japan's medieval period. Enlightenment, this discour... Lees meer

Chan Before Chan

Eric M Greene

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 39
• What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on--and what should be going on--behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seate... Lees meer

The Scripture on the Ten Kings

Stephen F Teiser

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 9
• An examination of medieval Chinese Buddhist thanatonic practices. Bridging area studies and the history of religions, Teiser explores the concerns, pr... Lees meer

Ritualized Writing

Bryan D Lowe

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
• Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant ... Lees meer

Chan Before Chan

Eric M Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 39
• What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on--and what should be going on--behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seate... Lees meer

Re-Visioning 'Kamakura' Buddhism

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 11
• The essays in this collection are an interdisciplinary examination of various aspects of Buddhism during the Kamakura era, including religious practic... Lees meer

Ryōgen and Mount Hiei

Paul Groner

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 15
• Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to it... Lees meer

Ritualized Writing

Bryan D Lowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 27
• Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant ... Lees meer

Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism

Robert H Sharf

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 38
• The issue of sinification--the manner and extent to which Buddhism and Chinese culture were transformed through their mutual encounter and dialogue--h... Lees meer

The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva

Zhiru Ng

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 21
• In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang... Lees meer

The Poetry Demon

Jason Protass

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 40
• Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960-1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry "the poetry demon." In this ambitious study, Jaso... Lees meer

Memory, Music, Manuscripts

Michaela Mross

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 46
• Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth cen... Lees meer

Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai

Paul Groner

• Paperback | Engels | Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
• Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat m... Lees meer