杰西卡•罗森教授（Professor Dame Jessica Rawson），英国著名艺术史家、考古学家、汉学家，牛津大学教授、中国美术学院视觉中国研究院院士，历任大英博物馆东方部主任，牛津大学墨顿学院院长，牛津大学副校长。英国国家学术院院士（Fellow of the British Academy），大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）获得者，是目前中国艺术与考古领域最为活跃的西方学者之一。

杰西卡•罗森教授（Professor Dame Jessica Rawson），英国著名艺术史家、考古学家、汉学家，牛津大学教授、中国美术学院视觉中国研究院院士，历任大英博物馆东方部主任，牛津大学墨顿学院院长，牛津大学副校长。英国国家学术院院士（Fellow of the British Academy），大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）获得者，是目前中国艺术与考古领域最为活跃的西方学者之一。

杰西卡•罗森教授（Professor Dame Jessica Rawson），英国著名艺术史家、考古学家、汉学家，牛津大学教授、中国美术学院视觉中国研究院院士，历任大英博物馆东方部主任，牛津大学墨顿学院院长，牛津大学副校长。英国国家学术院院士（Fellow of the British Academy），大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）获得者，是目前中国艺术与考古领域最为活跃的西方学者之一。

杰西卡•罗森教授（Professor Dame Jessica Rawson），英国著名艺术史家、考古学家、汉学家，牛津大学教授、中国美术学院视觉中国研究院院士，历任大英博物馆东方部主任，牛津大学墨顿学院院长，牛津大学副校长。英国国家学术院院士（Fellow of the British Academy），大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）获得者，是目前中国艺术与考古领域最为活跃的西方学者之一。

This work provides a new hypothesis for understanding the real nature of the term "White Lotus Teachings". The author argues that there are actually two different phenomena covered by similar terms: from c1130 until 1400 a lay Buddhist movement existed, which can be called the White Lotus movement. It enjoyed the respect of contemporary literati and religious elites. The moveme...(展开全部)

This text draws in a variety of primary sources, including histories, gazetteers, canonical records, memorials and essays, as well as secondary studies in Chinese, Japanese, English and French, in order to examine the White Lotus teachings in Chinese religious history.

From Publishers Weekly One of the best known, most torturous examples of fashionable alteration is Chinese foot binding. In Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet, Barnard College history professor Dorothy Ko looks at the making and wearing of lotus shoes, the footwear for women with bound feet. Along the way she discredits some simplistic popular notions about foot binding a...(展开全部)

The Lotus Sutra is one of the most revered Mahayana texts, yet there are very few commentaries on it available in English. In this book, renowned Zenteacher Thich Nhat Hanh explores the Sutra’s main theme that everyone has the capacity to become a Buddha and that the Buddha nature is inherent in everything while emphasizing that Buddha-nature is the basis for peaceful action....(展开全部)

Buddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of Buddhist practice within many traditions and keen interest in meditation and mindfulness. In The Lotus and the Lion, J. Jeffrey Franklin traces the historical and cultural origins of Western Buddhism, showing that the British Empire was a primary engine for curiosity about and then engage...(展开全部)