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First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist preacher and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward.Chün-fang Yü details how in sixteenth-century China, Buddhism entered a period of revitalization due in large part to a cohort of innovative monks who sought to transcend sectarian rivalries and doctrinal specialization. She examines the life, work, and teaching of one of the most important of these monks, Zhuhong (1535–1615), a charismatic teacher of lay Buddhists and a successful reformer of monastic Buddhism. Zhuhong’s contributions demonstrate that the late Ming was one of the most creative periods in Chinese intellectual and religious history. Weaving together diverse sources—scriptures, dynastic history, Buddhist chronicles, monks’ biographies, letters, ritual manuals, legal codes, and literature—Yü grounds Buddhism in the reality of Ming society, highlighting distinctive lay Buddhist practices to provide a vivid portrait of lived religion.Since the book was published four decades ago, many have written on the diversity of Buddhist beliefs and practices in the centuries before and after Zhuhong’s time, yet The Renewal of Buddhism in China remains a crucial touchstone for all scholarship on post-Tang Buddhism. This fortieth anniversary edition features updated transliteration, a foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson, and an updated introduction by the author speaking to the ongoing relevance of this classic work.

Buddhism --- Buddhist priests --- History. --- Zhuhong, --- Buddhist History. --- Chinese Buddhism. --- Chu Hung. --- Ming Buddhism. --- Zhu Hong. --- Zhuhong. --- history of China.

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The discourse on transplantation and brain death has become emblematic of conflicts between certain perspectives on adequate medical care, death and dying. Scientific and religious, modernising and traditional as well as academic and popular voices debate on how to approach these topics. This work captures the heterogeneous and often contradictory views on the Malaysian transplant venture and the treatment option of end stage organ failure from the Malay and Chinese population, physicians, state officials, and Muslim, Buddhist and Daoist clergy. It also addresses vital issues as to the use of and extent to which biomedicine and medical technology in contemporary Malaysia actually benefits its people.

Donation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Anatomical gifts --- Organ donation --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Tissue donation --- Tissues --- Donation --- Brain Death; Chinese Buddhism; Islam; Malaysia; Transplantation; Medical Care; Death; Dying; Science; Religion; Politics; Piety; Biomedicine; Medical Technology; Culture; Medicine; Ethnology; Sociology of Medicine; Biopolitics; Body --- Biomedicine. --- Biopolitics. --- Body. --- Chinese Buddhism. --- Culture. --- Death. --- Dying. --- Ethnology. --- Islam. --- Malaysia. --- Medical Care. --- Medical Technology. --- Medicine. --- Piety. --- Politics. --- Religion. --- Science. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Transplantation.

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The Buddhist monk Fazang (643-712), regarded today mainly as a scholastic monk, was in fact one of the greatest metaphysicians in Asia. This biographical - and hagiographical - study of Fazang seeks to explore his other contributions and in so doing to correct some major mis-presentations and misinterpretations existing in modern scholarship. It highlights and uncovers aspects of Fazang’s complicated life which have been neglected or ignored until now. By experimenting with some methodological innovations in reading medieval Chinese monastic hagio-biography, this study reveals general features, structures and overall governing laws of medieval East Asian monastic hagio-biographic literature. In doing so it is a major contribution to the ongoing discussion among scholars of hagiography in other contexts as well.

S13A/0340 --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: history --- Buddhist priests --- Hua yan Buddhism --- Huayan Buddhism --- Metaphysics --- Priests, Buddhist --- History. --- Fazang, --- Hua-yen Buddhism --- Hwaōn (Sect) --- Kegon (Sect) --- Mahayana Buddhism --- History --- Fa-tsang, --- Hōzō, --- Pŏpchang, --- 法藏, --- 法蔵, --- Xianshou, --- Hsien-shou, --- Hyŏnsu, --- 賢首,

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An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen texts Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were discovered in a sealed cave on the old Silk Road, in modern Gansu, China, in the early twentieth century. All more than a thousand years old, the manuscripts have sometimes been called the Buddhist Dead Sea Scrolls, and their translation has opened a new window onto the history of Buddhism.   Both accessible and illuminating, this book explores the continuities between the ways in which Zen was practiced in ancient times, and how it is practiced today in East Asian countries such as Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as in the emerging Western Zen tradition.

Zen Buddhism --- History. --- Zen Buddhism. --- Zen literature --- Zen Buddhist literature --- Buddhist literature --- Chʻan Buddhism --- Dhyāna (Sect) --- Zen --- Zen (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- History --- J1880 --- S13A/0320 --- K9076.20 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Zen --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: Chan Buddhism (incl. texts) --- Korea: Religion -- Buddhism -- Sŏn (Zen, Chan)

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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. Synthesizing twenty years of scholarship, Seeing through Zen offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices and religious history. Writing in a lucid and engaging style, McRae traces the emergence of this Chinese spiritual tradition and its early figureheads, Bodhidharma and the "sixth patriarch" Huineng, through the development of Zen dialogue and koans. In addition to constructing a central narrative for the doctrinal and social evolution of the school, Seeing through Zen examines the religious dynamics behind Chan's use of iconoclastic stories and myths of patriarchal succession. McRae argues that Chinese Chan is fundamentally genealogical, both in its self-understanding as a school of Buddhism and in the very design of its practices of spiritual cultivation. Furthermore, by forgoing the standard idealization of Zen spontaneity, we can gain new insight into the religious vitality of the school as it came to dominate the Chinese religious scene, providing a model for all of East Asia-and the modern world. Ultimately, this book aims to change how we think about Chinese Chan by providing new ways of looking at the tradition.

Zen Buddhism --- Spiritual life --- Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality --- History. --- S13A/0320 --- History --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: Chan Buddhism (incl. texts) --- Bouddhisme zen --- Histoire --- China --- Chine --- Religion --- Zen Buddhism - China - History. --- asian studies. --- bodhidharma. --- buddhist doctrine. --- buddhist social organizations. --- buddhists. --- chan lineages. --- china. --- chinese chan buddhism. --- chinese philosophy. --- comparative religion. --- genealogy. --- huineng. --- koans. --- modern buddhism. --- nonfiction. --- religion and spirituality. --- religious criticism. --- religious historians. --- religious history. --- religious scholars. --- religious studies. --- sixth patriarch. --- spiritual encounters. --- spiritual tradition. --- transformation. --- zen teaching. --- zen.