The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis

by Chün-fang Yü

Book Overview

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618-907) and steadily declined afterward.

Ch n-fang Y details how in sixteenth-century China, Buddhism entered a period of revitalization due in large...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231198523
• ISBN13: 9780231198523
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"