1st Edition
Chinese Buddhism A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive and Critical
By Joseph Edkins
Copyright 2001
490 Pages
by
Routledge
490 Pages
by
Routledge
492 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2000. This is Volume VI of six of the Oriental series looking at Arabic History and Culture. It was written in 1922, and presents discussions around the religion of Buddhism in China along with Tausim, Confucianism and Buddhist art. It highlights the Chinese Buddhists who contented for the immortality of the soul in the Northern Doctrines, against the followers of Confucius, that gave Chinese Buddhism a base and energy for the founding of new schools.
Chinese Buddhism., EdgarGold; Part 1 A Life of Buddha; Chapter 1 Life of Shakyamuni Till his Appearance at Benares as a Teacher.; Chapter 2 Life of Buddha from his Appearance as a Teacher at Benares to the Conversion of Rahula.; Chapter 3 From The Commencement Of Rahula’S Religious Life Till The Near Approach Of The Nirvana.; Chapter 4 Last Discourses And Death Of Buddha.; Chapter 5 The Patriarchs of the Northern Buddhists.; Chapter 6 Sketch of the History of Buddhism in China.; Chapter 7 The Schools of Chinese Buddhism.; Chapter 8 On Chi-K’Ai and the T’Ien-T’Ai School of Buddhism.; Chapter 9 The Buddhist Moral System.; Chapter 10 The Buddhist Calendar.; Chapter 11 Relation Of Buddhism To The Older Hindoo Mythology.; Chapter 12 The Buddhist Universe.; Chapter 13 The Extended Universe of the Northern Buddhists.; Chapter 14 Buddhist Images And Image Worship., EdgarGold; Chapter 15 Monasteries at P‘U-TO.; Chapter 16 Buddhist Processions, Associations, Pilgrimages, and Ceremonies for the Dead.; Chapter 17 Buddhist Literature.; Chapter 18 The Leng-Yen-King.—First Chapter.; Chapter 19 The Ekashloka Shastra.; Chapter 20 Effect of Buddhism on the Philosophy of the Sung Dynasty.; Chapter 21 Feng-Shui; Or, The Wind And Water Superstition Of The Chinese., EdgarGold; Chapter 22 Buddhist Phraseology In Relation To Christian Teaching.1This paper was read in the spring of 1878, before an association of missionaries resident in Peking.; Chapter 23 Notice of The Wu-Wei-Kiau, a Reformed Buddhist Sect.; Chapter 24 Buddhism and Tauism in Their Popular Aspects.; Chapter 25 On the Usb of Sanscrit by the Chinese Buddhists.; Chapter 26 Books and Papers that May be Consulted for the Study of Chinese Buddhism.;
Biography
Joseph Edkins
