Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia

Stephanie Balkwill, Ph.D. (2015), McMaster University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism at the University of California, Los Angeles. She publishes on the social, political, and intellectual history of Buddhist women in early medieval China. James A. Benn, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at McMaster University. He is the author of Burning for the Buddha: Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007) and Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015).

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Stephanie Balkwill and James Benn



1 Metropolitan Buddhism vis-à-vis Buddhism at the Metropolis: How to Understand the Ling in the Empress Dowager’s Name

 Stephanie Balkwill



2 Silla King Chinhŭng Institutes State-Protection Buddhist Rituals

 Richard D. McBride II



3 The Commissioner of Merit and Virtue: Buddhism and the Tang Central Government

 Geoffrey C. Goble



4 Images of Humane Kings: Rulers in the Dali-Kingdom Painting of Buddhist Images

 Megan Bryson



5 Buddhism and Statecraft in Korea: The Long View

 Gregory N. Evon



6 Refusing the Ruler’s Offerings: Accommodation and Martyrdom in Early Modern Nichiren Buddhism

 Jacqueline I. Stone



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