附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religious functions of Buddhist art in China / T. Griffith Foulk -- Text, image, and transformation in the history of the Shuilu fahui, the Buddhist rite for deliverance of creatures of water and land / Daniel B. Stevenson -- Buddhist literati and literary monks / Amy McNair -- Through the empty gate / Beata Grant -- Imperial engagements with Buddhist art and architecture / Marsha Weidner -- Miracles in Nanjing / Patricia Berger -- Thangkas for the Qianlong Emperor's seventieth birthday / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Beijing's Zhihua monastery / Kenneth J. Hammond.
摘要: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. Contributors: Terese Tse Bartholomew, Patricia Berger, T. Griffith Foulk, Beata Grant, Kenneth Hammond, Amy McNair, Daniel B. Stevenson, Marsha Weidner
