Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism.(Book Review)

From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Marsha Weidner, editor. Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. x, 234 pp. Hardcover $47.00, ISBN 0-8248-2308-7.

For most of the twentieth century, practically the only periods deemed worthy of study in Chinese Buddhism were prior to the Song dynasty (960-1278), under the assumption that the Tang dynasty (618-907) represented Buddhism's "golden age." Textual studies focusing on Buddhist doctrine likewise dominated scholarly discussion. Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism challenges these old assumptions and ...

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