Chinese Buddhism and the scholarship of Erik Zürcher / edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Stefano Zacchetti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A Unique Trajectory: Erik Zurcher's Studies of Chinese Buddhism / Stefano Zacchettif -- 2. The Archaeology of Early Chinese Buddhism: Rethinking "Han Buddhism and the Western Region" /  Minku Kim --  3. The "Missing Majority": Dao'an's Anonymous Scriptures Revisited /  Jan Nattier --  4. Features of the Underlying Language of Zhi Qian's Chinese Translation of the Vimalakirtinirdesa /  Seishi Karashimaf --  5. No Room at the Inn: The Brief Daoist Experiment with Buddhist Notions of Self /  Stephen R. Bokenkamp --  6. Buddhist Monks and Oral Performance /  Barend J. ter Haar --  7. Jizang's Sanskrit /  Funayama Torn --  8. The Waning Years of the Eminent Monk Xuanzang and his Deification in China and Japan /  Liu Shufen --  9. Blind Spots and One-Way Tracks in Chinese Buddhist Historiography /  Stefano Zacchettif --  10. Buddhism in Premodem China and Its Periodization: In Search of a New Narrative /  Antonello Palwnbo --  11. Middle Kingdom and Wider Buddhist World: Introducing Some Neglected Sources from Late Imperial and Modern China /  T.H. Barrett --  12. Erik Ziircher's Study of Christianity in Seventeenth-Century China: An Intellectual Portrait /  Nicolas Standaert.

"China has a long and complex history of interactions with the world around it. One of the most successful imports-arguably the most successful before modern times and the impact of the West-is Buddhism, which, since the first centuries of the Common Era, has spread into almost every aspect of Chinese life, thought and practice. Erik Zürcher was one of the most important scholars to study the history of Buddhism in China, and the ways in which Buddhism in China gradually became Chinese Buddhism. More than half a century after the publication of Zürcher's landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China, we now have a collection of essays from the top contemporary specialists exploring aspects of the legacy of Zürcher's investigations, bringing forward new evidence, new ideas and reconsiderations of old theories to present an up-to-date and exciting expansion and revision of what was arguably the single most influential contribution to date on the history of Chinese Buddhism. Contributors are Tim Barrett, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Funayama Toru, Barend ter Haar, Liu Shufen, Minku Kim, Jan Nattier, Antonello Palumbo, and Nicolas Standaert"-- Provided by publisher.

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