Jiang Wu, "Reinventing the Tripitaka: Transformation of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia"
English | ISBN: 1498547575 | 2017 | 268 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the "three treasures" in Buddhist communities. Despite its undisputed importance in the history of Buddhism, research on this huge collection has remained largely the province of Buddhologists focusing on textual and bibliographical studies. We thus aim to initiate methodological innovations to study the transformation of the canon by situating it in its modern context, characterized by intricate interactions between East and West as well as among countries in East Asia.

Eric M. Greene, "The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China "
English | ISBN: 0824884442 | 2021 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 9 MB
In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist "meditation masters" (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of "meditation" (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long been familiar with the approaches to meditation of the Chan (Zen) School that later became so popular throughout East Asia, these earlier and in some ways more pervasive forms of practice have long been overlooked or ignored. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which these approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing).

Dorothy Wong, "Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645-770"
English | ISBN: 9814722596 | 2018 | 366 pages | PDF | 95 MB
In the mid-seventh century, a class of Buddhist pilgrim-monks disseminated an art style in China, Japan, and Korea that was uniform in both iconography and formal properties. Traveling between the courts and religious centers of the region, these pilgrim-monks played a powerful role in this proto-cosmopolitanism, promulgating what came to be known as the International Buddhist Art Style.

The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals By Paul Waldau
2001 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0195145712 | PDF | 2 MB
This new study looks at how non-human animals have been viewed in the Buddhist and Christian religious traditions. The concept of speciesism, coined in 1970 as an analogy to racism and discussed almost exclusively within philosophical circles, is used to explore very basic questions about which animals, human or otherwise, were significant to early Buddhists and Christians. Drawing on scriptures and interpretive traditions in Christianity and Buddhism, Waldau argues that decisions about human ethical responsibilities in both religions are deeply rooted in ancient understandings of the place of humans in the world and our relationships with other animals in an integrated cosmos. His study offers scholars and others interested in the bases for ethical decisions new insights into Christian and Buddhist reasoning about animals as well as what each might have to offer to the current discussions about animal rights and environmental ethics.

Poems of the First Buddhist Women - A Translation of the Therigatha
epub | 3.86 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0674251415 | Author: Charles Hallisey | Year: 2021

Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness Tradition and Dialogue by Mark Siderits, Ching Keng and John Spackman
2020 | ISBN: 9004440895 | English | 356 pages | PDF | 5 MB

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