Postponement in Perpetuality: the Buddha’s Prophecy of the End of Buddhism and Its Transmission in East Asia

Yi Liu, Ph.D. (2000), is a professor in the Department of History at Capital Normal University. He has published eight monographs and more than 160 articles on Daoism and Buddhism, including a monograph on the intellectual historical background of the formation of medieval Philosophical Daoism (Zhonghua shuju, 2005), and a monograph on medieval Daoist Lingbao scriptures during the Six Dynasties (Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2018). Jinhua Chen, Ph.D. (1997), is a professor of East Asian Buddhism at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Jinhua Chen has authored six monographs and a few dozen articles on trans-national narratives of Buddhism, church-state relationships, Buddhist monasticism, translations of Buddhist texts, and manuscript cultures.