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The Poetry Demon
Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry "the poetry demon." In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the …
Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist …
Ritualized Writing
Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English, …
The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation
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 …
Approaches to Chan, Son, and Zen Studies
This volume focuses on Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread across East Asia, with special attention to its impacts on Korean Son and Japanese Zen. Zen enthralled the scholarly …
Chan Before Chan
What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what …
The Master from Mountains and Fields
The Master from Mountains and Fields is a fully annotated translation of the prose texts from the “collected works” of So Kyongdok (1489–1546), an influential Confucian scholar …
Memory, Music, Manuscripts
Koshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all …