Article: Burning for the Buddha; self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese ...
China Review International;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai ... periods deemed worthy of study in Chinese Buddhism were prior to the Song dynasty (960 ... Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism challenges these old assumptions and ...

Article: Burning for the Buddha: Self-immolation in Chinese ...
Middle Way;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... THE BUDDHA: Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism by James A Benn, Kuroda Institute ... of introducing self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism, the front jacket of the book shows ... self-immolation became a theme of Chinese Buddhism, for it fulfilled a number of important ...

Article: JeeLoo Liu. An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient ...
China Review International;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. xviii, 434 ... dynasty Confucians and Daoists to discuss the main schools of Chinese Buddhism. Neo-Confucianism is mentioned in passing, but is not ...

Article: Don A. Pittman. Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: ...
China Review International;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Don A. Pittman. Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu's Reforms. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. xi, 387 pp. Hardcover $54.00, ISBN 0-8248-2064 ...

Article: An introduction to Chinese philosophy; from ancient philosophy to ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2006 ;     462 words ...9781405129503 An introduction to Chinese philosophy; from ancient philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. Liu, JeeLoo. Blackwell Publishing 2006 434 pages $34.95 Paperback B126 Despite the title, Liu (philosophy, California ...

Article: The cultural practices of modern Chinese Buddhism; ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2008 ;     479 words ...9780415375030 The cultural practices of modern Chinese Buddhism; attuning the dharma. Tarocco, Francesca. Routledge 2007 183 pages $150.00 Hardcover Routledge critical studies in Buddhism ...

Article: Robert H. Sharf. Coming to Terms with Chinese ...
China Review International;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 2443-1. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism is a welcome addition to the growing ... associated with the modern study of Chinese Buddhism in an attempt to avoid faulty assumptions ... Treatise" (pp. 31-76) and "Chinese Buddhism and the Cosmology of Sympathetic Resonance ...