Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the ages / / edited by Ester Bianchi, Weirong Shen.

• Superior document: Studies on East Asian religions ; Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Bianchi, Ester,; Shen, Weirong, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on East Asian religions ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

This book introduces the reader to different cases of cultural intersections between Tibet and China in the field of Buddhism. The ten chapters provide a series of insights into Sino-Tibetan exchanges within religious practices and doctrines, material culture and iconography. Spanning from pre-modern encounters in Central Asia to contemporary forms of Sino-Tibetan hybridity in Chinese-speaking environments, Sino-Tibetan Buddhism Across the Ages produces further evidence that, beginning with the very introduction of Buddhism into Tibet, there were constant and fruitful contacts and blending between the Buddhist traditions developing in China and those of Tibet. Contributors are Urs App, Ester Bianchi, Isabelle Charleux, Zartino Dibeltulo Concu, Alison Denton Jones, Weirong Shen, Penghao Sun, Wei Wu, Fan Zhang, and Linghui Zhang.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Figures and Tables -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction (Bianchi and Shen) -- ‎Part 1. Early Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Encounters -- ‎Chapter 1. An Invented Tradition: Hva shang Mahāyāna and His Teachings in Tibetan Literature (Shen) -- ‎Chapter 2. Attending to the Elders: Icons and Identities of Dharmatāla and Hva shang across the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Landscape (Zhang) -- ‎Chapter 3. To the Place Where Tea Comes from: Gyi-ljang's Trip to China (Sun) -- ‎Chapter 4. Edicts and the Edible: Digesting Imperial Sovereignty in Lhasa (Zhang) -- ‎Part 2. Tibetan Tantra in the Modern World -- ‎Chapter 5. Tibetan Theosophy: Helena Blavatsky's Tantric Connection (App) -- ‎Chapter 6. Tantrism, Modernity, History: On Lü Cheng's Philological Method (Dibeltulo Concu) -- ‎Part 3. Modern Forms of Sino-Tibetan Hybridity -- ‎Chapter 7. The Combined Practice of Vinaya and Tantra in Nenghai's Path to Liberation (Bianchi) -- ‎Chapter 8. Approaching the Perfection of Wisdom: Nenghai's Interpretation of the Ornament of Realization (Wu) -- ‎Chapter 9. Accidental Esoterics: Han Chinese Practicing Tibetan Buddhism (Denton Jones) -- ‎Chapter 10. Tibeto-Mongol and Chinese Buddhism in Present-Day Hohhot, Inner Mongolia: Competition and Interactions (Charleux) -- ‎Index.