Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher / / edited by Jonathan A. Silk and Stefano Zacchetti†.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia ; 157
• TeilnehmendeR: Zacchetti, Stefano, 1968-2020,; Silk, Jonathan A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; 157.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 pages)

Since Erik Zürcher's landmark Buddhist Conquest of China, the study of earlier phases of Chinese Buddhist history has made great progress with new materials, new interpretations and new problematizations. This volume brings together 12 contributions from the leading scholars in the field offering new perspectives on this old tradition.

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 Zürcher 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 Zürcher'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 Zürcher'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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations and Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Unique Trajectory: Erik Zürcher's Studies of Chinese Buddhism -- Chapter 2 The Archaeology of Early Chinese Buddhism: Rethinking "Han Buddhism and the Western Region" -- Chapter 3 The "Missing Majority": Dao'an's Anonymous Scriptures Revisited -- Chapter 4 Features of the Underlying Language of Zhi Qian's Chinese Translation of the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa -- Chapter 5 No Room at the Inn: The Brief Daoist Experiment with Buddhist Notions of Self -- Chapter 6 Buddhist Monks and Oral Performance -- Chapter 7 Jizang's 吉 Sanskrit -- Chapter 8 The Waning Years of the Eminent Monk Xuanzang and his Deification in China and Japan -- Chapter 9 Blind Spots and One-Way Tracks in Chinese Buddhist Historiography -- Chapter 10 Buddhism in Premodern China and Its Periodization: In Search of a New Narrative -- Chapter 11 Middle Kingdom and Wider Buddhist World: Introducing Some Neglected Sources from Late Imperial and Modern China -- Chapter 12 Erik Zürcher's Study of Christianity in Seventeenth-Century China: An Intellectual Portrait -- Appendix Corrigenda to Zürcher's "Han Buddhism and the Western Region" -- Index.