Buddhism

Lou Yulie 楼宇烈 is Professor at the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Religious Studies, Peking University. Pei-Ying Lin PhD (2012) SOAS, London University, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UC Berkeley. She has published articles and co-translated Professor Chün-fang Yü's Kuan-yin (Columbia University Press, 2001).

Introduction (Yü Chun-fang)
Translator’s Note
List of Illustrations

Buddhist Schools in China
1. Tathāgata Chan and Patriarchal Chan (Fang Litian)
2. The Fourth Patriarch Daoxin’s Chan Thought (Song Lidao)
3. Patriarch Lineage of Chinese Chan School and the Indian Transmission of Dharma-treasure (Wang Bangwei)
4. On Hu Shih’s Study of Chan History (Lo Yülie)
5. A Study of Early Transmissions of the Tiantai School (Xu Wenming)
6. A Preliminary Study on the Buddhist Thought of Huisi, the Tiantai School Pioneer: Questions regarding Early Taintai Thought (Zhang Fenglei)

Buddhist Classics
7. Questions about the Śūraṅgama Sūtra (Li Fuhua)

Buddhist Images
8. A General Introduction to the Cliff statues of Mount Kongwang (Wen Yücheng)
9. The Drawing of Yama and Scripture-Carving of the Early Tang Dynasty: Case Study of the Rubbings of “Qi Shiyuan’s Inscriptions for the Xian Mausoleum” (Zhang Zong)
Buddhist Exchanges Between China and Other Countries
10. Buddhist Interaction between China and Korean Peninsula during the Sui and Tang Dynasties: A Survey of Korean Monk Visitors in China (Huang Xinchuan)
11. The Influence of Buddhist Cosmology on the Idea of the Geographical Center in Pre-Modern China (Lü Jianfu)
12. Cultural Confluence during the Development of Buddhism: A Case Study of the Liushi liwen (Fang Guangchang)
13. The Buddhism-Daoism dispute during the Xianqing and Longshuo Eras of the Tang Dynasty (Pan Guiming)

Appendix
14. Buddhist Studies in Mainland China after the Year 1978 (Huang Xianian)