Weidner: Cultural Intersection CL

by Marsha Smith Weidner

This collection of essays on later Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824823087
• ISBN13: 9780824823085
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.6"