王静芬(DorothyC．Wong)，现任美国弗吉尼亚大学艺术系副教授，她专攻中国中古时期的佛教艺术，从事宗教与社会关系以及宗教文本与视觉表现之间的关系等艺术史课题的研究。除本书外，她还著有《法隆寺再思》(HOryOjiReconsidered)一书(任主编并有论文发表，2008年)，并发表多篇与佛教艺术有关的论文。

The first complete translation of China's earliest and most influential monastic code.

中译本：佛陀的女儿：南传佛教大修行人的传奇心灵 （此中译本有一些翻译错误，建议阅读英文原版） 译者： 周和君 出版社：台湾橡树林 初版日期：2003年09月09日 蒂帕嬷(Dipa Ma, 1911-1989)是当代南传上座部佛教传统中有大成就的一位女性阿罗汉, 她对于现代内观禅修界, 和西方南传佛教界影响深远。印度现代第一个内观禅修中心的创始人, 尊敬的拉斯特帕拉长老(Venerable Rastrapala Mahathera )是她的学生, 当今美国的佛教禅修导师杰克.康费尔德(Jack Kornfield), 莎伦.萨尔斯堡(Sharon Salzberg), 约瑟夫. 葛斯坦(Joseph Goldstein)也都是她的弟子。 蒂帕嬷的内观传承来自于缅甸的马哈希西亚多。

Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia and through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. To guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were made, beginning in India in the 3rd century BC. This phenomenally diverse tradition includes not only frescoes, relief carvings, colossal statues, silk embroideries and...(展开全部)

Between 1850 and 1966, tens of thousands of Buddhist sacred sites in China were destroyed, victims of targeted destruction, accidental damage, or simply neglect. During the same period, however, many of these sites were reconstructed, a process that involved both rebuilding material structures and reviving religious communities. The conventionally accepted narrative of Chinese ...(展开全部)