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

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia ; 157
• TeilnehmendeR: Zacchetti, Stefano, 1968-2020,; Silk, Jonathan A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Bliain Foilsithe: 2022
• Eagrán: 1st ed.
• Teanga: English
• Sraith: Sinica Leidensia ; 157.
• Cur Síos Fisiciúil: 1 online resource (468 pages)

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 offeri...

Table of 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.