商品簡介
Buddhism in China gathers for the first time Erik Zurcher’s most central papers on Chinese Buddhism, dealing with the translation and language of Buddhist scriptures, interactions with Daoist traditions, activities of Buddhists below elite social levels, and typological comparisons with Christianity.
作者簡介
Erik Zurcher (1928-2008), studied Sinology and Buddhology in Leiden and Paris and received his Ph.D. in 1959. From 1962 to 1993, Zurcher was Professor of History of East Asia at Leiden University and was Director of the Sinological Institute, between 1975 and 1990. He published extensively on early Chinese Buddhism, Daoism, and the reception of Christianity in seventeenth-century China.Jonathan A. Silk, PhD (1994), University of Michigan, is Professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden University. He publishes primarily on Mahayana Buddhism, especially its textual traditions from India onward to China and Tibet.