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)

伯兰特·佛尔（Bernard Faure），法国著名佛教学者（现移居美国）。1978年佛尔毕业于法国国立东方语言文化学院，获研究生文凭。1984年，佛尔毕业于巴黎第七大学，获哲学国家博士学位。1978-1983年期间，佛尔留学日本，先后作为访问学者和研究生就读于京都大学人文科学研究所（历史学京都学派重镇），从柳田圣山先生研究禅学（柳田圣山在此期间任教于京都大学，后曾任人文科学研究所所长，以倡导历史文献批评学方法研治禅学而知名）。1983年，佛尔移居美国，先后任康奈尔大学助理教授（1983-1987）和副教授（1987），及斯坦福大学副教授（1987-1994）、教授（1994-1999）、讲座教授，现为哥伦比亚大学宗教学系、东亚语言文化系教授，并担任哥伦比亚大学日本宗教研究中心主任。 佛尔佛学研究的主题是东亚佛教。在这一论域内，他的论述主要集中在...(展开全部)

The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessment of Chan lineages, teaching, fundraising practices, and social organization. Sy...(展开全部)

The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. "Chinese Religiosities" explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide r...(展开全部)

Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society. Examining dozens of previously unstudied writings from the Chinese Buddhist press, this...(展开全部)

Bringing together leading authorities in the fields of Chinese and Tibetan Studies alike, Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism engages cutting-edge research on the fertile tradition of Esoteric Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism). This state of the art volume unfolds the sweeping impact of esoteric Buddhism on Tibetan and Chinese cultures, and the movement's role in forg...(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)

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)