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Chinese Transformation of Buddhism & Crossborder Transmission of Buddhism

Chinese Transformation of Buddhism & Crossborder Transmission of Buddhism

SKU: MC-4EN0-B47C

Editors: Jing YUE 月淨, Jinhua CHEN 陳金華, Song WANG 王頌
ISBN: 978-981-18-4152-1
Date of Publication: 2022-04-15

Pages: 607

  • PRODUCT INFO

    Chinese Transformation of Buddhism & Crossborder Transmission of Buddhism: Pan-Asian Spread of Tiantai/Ch’ŏnt’ae/Tendai Texts, Ideas and Practices and Its Position in East Asian Society. Series on Famed Mountains and Great Monasteries III. Edited by Jing Yue 月淨, Jinhua Chen 陳金華, Song Wang 王頌, 2022.

     

    This is Volume III of the FROGBEAR Series on Famed Mountains and Great Temples. Sacred space is an essential component of any religious tradition and especially significant for transcultural religions such as Buddhism. It is hard to exaggerate the importance of holy sites in Buddhist history. While the far-reaching and widespread significance of Buddhist sacred territories has attracted the attention of scholars from various disciplines, there remains much work to be done both on specific locales of practice and interpretative strategies for understanding sacred sites in medieval China generally. This book series proposes to fill this scholarly gap through the collaborative and in-depth studies of ‘famed mountains and great temples’ (mingshan dasi 名山大寺), territories of exceptional importance in China and, in many cases, throughout the whole of East Asia.

     

    This volume collects 16 of the over 40 papers presented to the International Symposium of Tiantai Studies under the theme of