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Cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism / edited by Marsha Weidner.

Contributor(s): Weidner, Marsha Smith
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2001Description: ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0824823087 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Buddhism and art -- ChinaDDC classification: 294.3/437/0951 LOC classification: BQ4570.A7 | C86 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism / Marsha Weidner -- Religious functions of Buddhist art in China / T. Griffith Foulk -- Text, image, and transformation in the history of the Shuilu fahui, the Buddhist rite for deliverance of creatures of water and land / Daniel B. Stevenson -- Buddhist literati and literary monks: social and religious elements in the critical reception of Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy / Amy McNair -- Through the empty gate: the poetry of Buddhist nuns in late imperial China / Beata Grant -- Imperial engagements with Buddhist art and architecture: Ming variations on an old theme / Marsha Weidner -- Miracles in Nanjing: an imperial record of the fifth Karmapa's visit to the Chinese capital / Patricia Berger -- Thangkas for the Qianlong emperor's seventieth birthday / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Beijing's Zhihua monastery: history and restoration in China's capital / Kenneth J. Hammond.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: cultural intersections in later Chinese Buddhism / Marsha Weidner -- Religious functions of Buddhist art in China / T. Griffith Foulk -- Text, image, and transformation in the history of the Shuilu fahui, the Buddhist rite for deliverance of creatures of water and land / Daniel B. Stevenson -- Buddhist literati and literary monks: social and religious elements in the critical reception of Zhang Jizhi's calligraphy / Amy McNair -- Through the empty gate: the poetry of Buddhist nuns in late imperial China / Beata Grant -- Imperial engagements with Buddhist art and architecture: Ming variations on an old theme / Marsha Weidner -- Miracles in Nanjing: an imperial record of the fifth Karmapa's visit to the Chinese capital / Patricia Berger -- Thangkas for the Qianlong emperor's seventieth birthday / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Beijing's Zhihua monastery: history and restoration in China's capital / Kenneth J. Hammond.

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