Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Z?cher (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004515819)

China has a long and complex history of interactions with the world around it. One of the most successful imports--arguably the most successful before modern times and the impact of the West--is Buddhism, which, since the first centuries of the Common Era, has spread into almost every aspect of Chinese life, thought and practice.
Erik Z?cher was one of the most important scholars to study the history of Buddhism in China, and the ways in which Buddhism in China gradually became Chinese Buddhism. More than half a century after the publication of Z?cher's landmark The Buddhist Conquest of China, we now have a collection of essays from the top contemporary specialists exploring aspects of the legacy of Z?cher's investigations, bringing forward new evidence, new ideas and reconsiderations of old theories to present an up-to-date and exciting expansion and revision of what was arguably the single most influential contribution to date on the history of Chinese Buddhism. Contributors are Tim Barrett, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Funayama Toru, Barend ter Haar, Liu Shufen, Minku Kim, Jan Nattier, Antonello Palumbo, and Nicolas Standaert.

Author: Jonathan A. Silk
ISBN-10: 900451581X
ISBN-13: 9789004515819
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2022
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover