First published in French in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with that of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.
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This work will remain one of this century's classic histories of China. Gernet's account of Buddhism is sobering.
(Journal of Asian Studies )This is perhaps the greatest contribution of Gernet's work: he demonstrates through the skilled use of a dazzling variety of literary evidence the complexity of the interchange between Buddhism and Chinese society.
(China Review International )This is an analysis of Buddhist practice within its socio-economic context and still one of the best examples of Chinese social history in any discipline in forty years. For new generations of researchers, the forty years' wait [for the English translation] has been worth it.
(China Review )The value of this book is its translations of primary sources and its salutary reminder of the importance of economic motivations and activities in the history of Chinese Buddhism.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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It is useful to visualize the imprint of Buddhism on Chinese soil in concrete terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inexhaustible property, milling households, personal share lands, monastery households, milling installations, impure goods, private ordinations, ordination certificates, permanent assets, deceased monks, ordination platform, mill rent, regular monks, stele inscriptions, state monasteries, same monastery, monks present, inexhaustible treasuries, lay servant, vegetarian feasts, small sanctuaries, devotional objects, pious donations, itinerant monks, reign period Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Wei, Buddhist Church, Central Asia, Chinese Buddhism, God of the Soil, Greater Vehicle, Wang Chin, Lesser Vehicle, School of the Three Stages, Ch'i Chou, Emperor Wu of the Liang, Kao Li-shih, Tse Jung, Wang Chih-hsing, Board of Sacrifices, Emperor Wu of the Chou, Fo-tsu Cung-chi, Long Life Treasuries, Naha Toshisada, Pure Land, Sect of the Three Stages, Hsin T'i-p'i, Kao Chao, Naba Toshisada, North China New!
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It is useful to visualize the imprint of Buddhism on Chinese soil in concrete terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inexhaustible property, milling households, personal share lands, monastery households, milling installations, impure goods, private ordinations, ordination certificates, permanent assets, deceased monks, ordination platform, mill rent, regular monks, stele inscriptions, state monasteries, same monastery, monks present, inexhaustible treasuries, lay servant, vegetarian feasts, small sanctuaries, devotional objects, pious donations, itinerant monks, reign period Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Wei, Buddhist Church, Central Asia, Chinese Buddhism, God of the Soil, Greater Vehicle, Wang Chin, Lesser Vehicle, School of the Three Stages, Ch'i Chou, Emperor Wu of the Liang, Kao Li-shih, Tse Jung, Wang Chih-hsing, Board of Sacrifices, Emperor Wu of the Chou, Fo-tsu Cung-chi, Long Life Treasuries, Naha Toshisada, Pure Land, Sect of the Three Stages, Hsin T'i-p'i, Kao Chao, Naba Toshisada, North China New!
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- The Book of the Discipline (Vinaya - Pitaka): Vol. IV (Mahavagga) (v. 4) by I.B. Horner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings (Records of Civilization) by Shou-Jen Wang in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Self and Society in Ming Thought by William Theodore de Bary in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Village Life in China: A Study in Sociology by Arthur Henderson Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wing-Tsit Chan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture (Buddhisms) by John Kieschnick in Front Matter, page 87, and Back Matter
- Ordinary Images by Stanley K. Abe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Nagarjuna in Context: Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture by Joseph Walser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Chinese Religion and Society (2 volumes) by John Lagerwey on page 374, and page 379
- Buddhist Peacework -- Creating Cultures of Peace by David W. Chappell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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