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James A Benn deposited Seminar on Chinese Religions in Literature and Performance in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months agoSyllabus for a graduate seminar on Chinese Religions at McMaster University Term II 2017-2018
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Martino Dibeltulo Concu deposited The Revival of Tantrism: Tibetan Buddhism and Modern China in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months agoThis dissertation considers how Tantrism, a ritual tradition vanished in India and in China, but preserved in modern Japan and Tibet, became a component of the revival of Chinese Buddhism between the two World Wars. Tantrism became appealing to revivalists who, in China’s time of internal war and foreign invasion, sought to recover this lost t…[Read more]
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Gregory Adam Scott deposited Conversion by the Book in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months agoIn this dissertation I argue that print culture acted as a catalyst for change among Buddhists in modern China. Through examining major publication institutions, publishing projects, and their managers and contributors from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, I show that the expansion of the scope and variety of printed works, as well as new…[Read more]
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James A Benn deposited recent Scholarship in Buddhist Studies Graduate seminar in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoGraduate seminar in Buddhist Studies at McMaster University
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Marek Kalmus deposited Tybet – koniec legendy? / Tibet – end of the Legend? in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoTibet – end of the legend
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Martino Dibeltulo Concu deposited Buddhism, Philosophy, History. On Eugène Burnouf’s Simple Sūtras in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoPhilosophy has long become a key term in the study of Buddhism, defining the moral and rational essence of the Buddha’s teaching, emblematic of its Indian origins. In this essay, I suggest that the relation of Buddhism and philosophy, which prior to the mid-nineteenth century was framed as the relation of the Religion of Fo to the cult of v…[Read more]
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James A Benn deposited One Mountain, Two Traditions: Buddhist and Taoist Claims on Zhongnan shan in Medieval Times in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week agoarticle about Mount Zhongnan in the Tang dynasty
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Natalia Elvira Astoreca started the topic Enquiry: Manjushri and writing (?) in the discussion
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoHello everyone!
I was hoping that someone could answer a question for me and help me out a little. I am a PhD student in Classics with very little background on Buddhism. I am preparing a series of blog posts on gods and myths related to writing in different cultures of the world and I read somewhere that the bodhisattva Manjushri is somehow…[Read more]