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 examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of th...(展开全部)

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。

芮沃寿(ArthurF.Wright，1913－1976)，20世纪中叶美国汉学研究的领军人物之一，与费正清同为美国汉学研究的奠基人。1947年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，专攻佛教及隋唐史，曾任斯坦福大学及耶鲁大学教授。1951年与费正清等成立中国思想研究会，担任主席。他还是美国历史协会、美国亚洲研究协会会员，并长期担任中华文明研究委员会会长。

Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practitioners—including monks, nuns, teachers, disciples, and laypeople—have kept texts describing how to perform the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived...(展开全部)

This book investigates how Buddhism gradually integrated itself into the Chinese culture by taking filial piety as a case study because it is an important moral teaching in Confucianism and it has shaped nearly every aspect of Chinese social life. The Chinese criticized Buddhism mainly on ethical grounds as Buddhist clergies left their parents’ homes, did not marry, and were wi...(展开全部)

When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view. Consequently, Buddhism in China has usually been discussed in terms of the Indianization of Chinese life and thought, but Kenneth Ch'en shows that as Indian ideas were gaining ground the Chinese were choosing among them and mo...(展开全部)

This is volume 13 of the Kuroda Institute's excellent Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. The present volume grew out of the conference "Buddhism in the Sung," hosted by the University of Illinois in April 1996. This volume is the first extended scholarly treatment of Buddhism in the Sung (960-1279) to be published in a Western language. It focuses largely on elite figures, ...(展开全部)

Politics and Transcendent Wisdom presents a systematic theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between politics and religion in a variety of contexts. This book examines the formation of "national protection" Buddhism in China and translates the key text of this important movement. Showing that Buddhist notions of sovereignty were meant and were taken as more t...(展开全部)

Curators of the Buddha is the first critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West and the first work to bring the insights of colonial and postcolonial cultural studies to bear on this field. After an overview of the origins of Buddhist studies in the early nineteenth century, the essays focus on important "curators of the Buddha" such as Aurel Stein, D. T. Suzuki, and ...(展开全部)