The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography 0824818415, 9780824818418

The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography 9780824846015

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Early Medieval Hagiography 9781641890892

Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly b

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The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk 9781462901456

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Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China 9780812209693

This interdisciplinary study examines the reception of Āyurvedic knowledge and other Indian medical teachings in medieva

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Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography 9789462988248

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderquee

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Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography 9789048540266

This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholar

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Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture 9780824862251

Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China

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Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia 9789048551835

This book tells the story of how a minority community comes to grip with the puzzling drama of modernity, history, globa

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Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan 2019058783, 9780824881214

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Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan 9780824884222

From its inception in northeastern India in the first millennium BCE, the Buddhist tradition has advocated a range of id

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