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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Paperback | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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