The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school of Chinese Buddhism began when, in the seventh century, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. In this book Albert Welter presents, for the fi...(展开全部)

What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earlies...(展开全部)

What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earlies...(展开全部)

作者简介 Jenifer Van Vleck，本科毕业于布朗大学，博士毕业于耶鲁大学。曾在耶鲁大学执教美国和世界历史，现在史密森航空学会从事研究工作。研究方向为美国对外关系历史，重点关注文化、技术和私营企业如何塑造美国的世界角色。她也是著名的世界航空发展史的研究者和学者。 译者简介 姜哲人，先后获得北京航空航天大学经济学学士学位、法国图卢兹高等商学院MBA学位。曾供职于中国航空工业集团有限公司民机产业部，从事航空外贸、政策研究、民机发展规划、国际合作等工作，主笔了《中国航空工业民用航空“十三五”产业发展规划实施意见》。长期关注并研究欧美航空工业发展历史及情况，同时也是一名航空科普志愿者。

作者简介 Jenifer Van Vleck，本科毕业于布朗大学，博士毕业于耶鲁大学。曾在耶鲁大学执教美国和世界历史，现在史密森航空学会从事研究工作。研究方向为美国对外关系历史，重点关注文化、技术和私营企业如何塑造美国的世界角色。她也是著名的世界航空发展史的研究者和学者。 译者简介 姜哲人，先后获得北京航空航天大学经济学学士学位、法国图卢兹高等商学院MBA学位。曾供职于中国航空工业集团有限公司民机产业部，从事航空外贸、政策研究、民机发展规划、国际合作等工作，主笔了《中国航空工业民用航空“十三五”产业发展规划实施意见》。长期关注并研究欧美航空工业发展历史及情况，同时也是一名航空科普志愿者。

Review "This book traces the processes that resulted in military strategies in 17 cases, ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to American nuclear strategy...Each essay is self-contained, and academics searching for brief but expert analyses of strategic case studies for teaching purposes will welcome this book." Foreign Affairs "...the essays, including those on Israel and the ...(展开全部)

Sometime around the year 64, in the main square of the city of Amisus (modern Samsun in northern Turkey) on the Black Sea coast, a group of workmen unveiled a new monument. It consisted of three statues representing select members of the imperial family: the emperor Nero, sporting his trademark neck beard; his beautiful second wife Poppaea, her hair bound up in elaborate coiffu...(展开全部)