Chinese Buddhism / / Joseph Edkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Edkins, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (492 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; ADVERTISEMENT --; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; A LIFE OF BUDDHA IN FOUR CHAPTERS --; CHAPTER I. LIFE OF SHAKYAMUNI TILL HIS APPEARANCE AT BENARES AS A TEACHER --; CHAPTER II. LIFE OF BUDDHA FROM HIS APPEARANCE AS A TEACHER AT BENARES TO THE CONVERSION OF RAHULA --; CHAPTER III. FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF RAHULA'S RELIGIOUS LIFE TILL THE NEAR APPROACH OF THE NIRVANA --; CHAPTER IV. LAST DISCOURSES AND DEATH OF BUDDHA --; CHAPTER V. THE PATRIARCHS OF THE NORTHERN BUDDHISTS --; CHAPTER VI. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN CHINA --; CHAPTER VII. THE SCHOOLS OF CHINESE BUDDHISM --; CHAPTER VIII. ON CHI-K'AI AND THE T'IEN-T'AI SCHOOL OF BUDDHISM --; CHAPTER IX. THE BUDDHIST MORAL SYSTEM --; CHAPTER X. THE BUDDHIST CALENDAR --; CHAPTER XI. RELATION' OF BUDDHISM TO THE OLDER HINDOO MYTHOLOGY --; CHAPTER XII. THE BUDDHIST UNIVERSE --; CHAPTER XIII. THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE OF THE NORTHERN BUDDHISTS --; CHAPTER XIV. BUDDHIST IMAGES AND IMAGE-WORSHIP --; CHAPTER XV. MONASTERIES AT P'U-TO --; CHAPTER XVI. BUDDHIST PROCESSIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, PILGRIMAGES, AND CEREMONIES FOR THE DEAD --; CHAPTER XVII. BUDDHIST LITERATURE --; CHAPTER XVIII. THE LENG-YEN-KING—FIRST CHAPTER --; CHAPTER XIX. THE EKASHLOKA SHASTRA --; CHAPTER XX. EFFECT OF BUDDHISM ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SUNG DYNASTY --; CHAPTER XXI. FENG-SHUI, OR THE WIND AND WATER SUPERSTITION OF THE CHINESE --; CHAPTER XXII. BUDDHIST PHRASEOLOGY IN RELATION TO CHRISTIAN TEACHING --; CHAPTER XXIII. NOTICE OF THE WU-WEI-KIAU, A REFORMED BUDDHIST SECT --; CHAPTER XXIV. BUDDHISM AND TAUISM IN THEIR POPULAR ASPECTS --; CHAPTER XXV. ON THE USE OF SANSCRIT BY THE CHINESE BUDDHISTS --; CHAPTER XXVI. BOOKS AND PAPERS THAT MAY BE CONSULTED TOR THE STUDY OF CHINESE BUDDHISM. --; ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS --; ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES OF COOKS MENTIONED
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463207724; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463207724
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph Edkins.

A thoroughly descriptive account of Chinese Buddhism that describes its history and different schools. The author uses Buddhist literature to describe the faith’s moral system, calendar, images, procession, and literature.