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- Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
In a demonstration of the value of interdisciplinary, culture-based approaches, 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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- Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Liturgical Culture: Image, Text, and Ritual
- Literati Culture: Calligraphy and Poetry
- Contributors
- pp. 219-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824862091
Related ISBN(s)
9780824823085
MARC Record
OCLC
54393227
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No