Cultural Intersections In Later Chinese Buddhism
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Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism
Author | : Marsha Smith Weidner |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824823085 |
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This collection of essays on later Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.
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