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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 322–359.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of late medieval poetry, which in turn prompt close readings of the sources. These readings lead to four conclusions about the history of late medieval poetry: (a) Buddhist monks were hubs of literary activity, (b) the poet Jia Dao became an increasingly important site of connection over time, (c...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 April 2017
... shuju , 2010 reprint. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Hu Shih Chan Buddhism culture fever historiography Chinese Buddhist history Previously stifled academic fields enjoyed renewed interest and energy in the 1980s in China. Academic research on Chan Buddhism had...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 400–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Here, however, I am focusing on Ouyang in his Yogācāra phase, whose resonance with the Japanese Critical Buddhists is clear and straightforward. 86. Ouyang, Weishi jueze tan , 1 . 87. Hsia, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction , 533 . 88. Chen Yinke, Shixue lunwen xuanji , 511...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 338–366.
Published: 01 November 2022
... not know much about the early history of Buddhist methods of cultivation at all. 37 Apparently, some of the first Dhyana ( chan ) practices resembled Daoist respiratory techniques meant to lead to mental concentration. 38 In the sixth century Tiantai master Zhiyi 智顗 (538–597) established...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 383–419.
Published: 01 November 2017
... implications of Buddhist emptiness. 88 This dual usage allows the authors to subvert the conventional norms of a parting poem and reappropriate its social function in a Buddhist monastic setting. The Yifanfeng parting poems reflect the intersection of Chinese literary history and Buddhist...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the human Dao and the Buddhist Dao, Sōseki's Dao also resonates with another significant Chinese philosophical tradition—Daoism. As early as 1892, while still a college student at the Imperial University in Tokyo, he wrote a paper on eastern philosophy titled “Rōshi no tetsugaku” 老子の哲學 (The Philosophy...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
...” that runs through both their lives. The name of Lian'an's constant deliverer, Zhenru, is an even more intriguing example because the term zhenru 真如 (true thusness) appears both in orthodox Buddhist texts and in popular sectarian teachings. 34 Zhenru is the Chinese rendering of the Sanskrit term...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 195–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... 47. Ibid., 148. 48. Huber, Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain , 8 . 49. For example, see Sadakata, Buddhist Cosmology ; Prip-Møller, Chinese Buddhist Monasteries . 50. Boulton, “Early Chinese Buddhist Travel Records as a Literary Genre.” 51. Z. Wang, Daoism...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 287–312.
Published: 01 November 2020
... renxiang: Fojiao meishushi yanjiu de xin guandian” 中國佛教造像中的供養人像——佛教美術史研究的新觀點 ( Donor Images in Chinese Buddhist Sculptures: A New Perspective on the History of Buddhist Art ). Translated by Niu Yuan 牛源 . Zhongyuan wenwu 中原文物 ( Cultural Relics of Central China ) ( 2009 ): 74 – 85 , 112. Jia...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 458–465.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of a uniquely interpretative and creative practice in world history. Kornicki offers comprehensive coverage of their originality and explains how these techniques worked. The third part surveys three bodies of Sinitic, Buddhist scriptures, Confucian classics, and primers and technical texts, in roughly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (1): 180–207.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... The Chinese term yi has a long and complex history of application to express different Buddhist concepts about the mind. In his translation of Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, the eminent Indian monk Gunabhadra 求那跋陀羅 (394–468) uses the term yi , together with xin and shi , to describe the changeable, insubstantial...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 48–90.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of Exchange Poetry in Late Medieval China: Notes toward a Dynamic History of Tang Literature. ” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 5 , no. 2 ( 2018 ): 322 – 59 . McNair, Amy . Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture . Honolulu...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 115–148.
Published: 01 April 2020
... analyze Luo Maodeng's intricate design to highlight the hu 胡 (non-Chinese) and hui 回 (Muslim) elements in the two major characters in the novel: the all-powerful Buddhist monk Jin Bifeng 金碧峰 and the official leader of the expedition, Zheng He. I then move on to the episodes that surround a less...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 297–335.
Published: 01 November 2023
... shows that as early as the Liu-Song dynasty (420–479) writers already went beyond the limitations of the native Chinese conception of “image” ( xiang ) and consciously applied Buddhist concepts to come to new understandings of the objects, methods, and effects of the visual sense and to probe...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 422–428.
Published: 01 November 2021
... assembles thirteen essays on topics from the Spring and Autumn period down to the Northern Song, drawing on primary sources ranging from standard historiographical and philosophical classics to excavated texts, bellettristic works in various genres, anomaly accounts, and Buddhist scriptural...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 481–485.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to find in any post-May Fourth anthology of Chinese literature. This is understandable, and even desirable, though it is not without its complications. For example, Chen Yinchi and Jing Chen's chapter “Buddhist Enlightenment: Wang Wei and Han Shan [ sic ]” (205–21) focuses primarily on seeking out...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (2): 403–437.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of immortals, plus the five types of creatures ( wuchong ), plus another category not explained so far: the four types of monkey, the fourth of which is that of the double. Here is where allegorical interpretation must enter the picture in the form of the Buddhist kenning “monkey of the mind and horse...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 115–147.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... Graham, Yang Kuei-Fei Legend ; Ng, “Images of Yang Guifei in Tokugawa Texts.” 86. M. C. Wang, “Early Chinese Buddhist Sculptures,” 18 . 87. Kieschnick, Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture , 68 . 88. Ibid., 63. 89. M. C. Wang, “Early Chinese Buddhist...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 26–56.
Published: 01 April 2016
... ) language. 36 Such linguistic facility is unprecedented in the history of Chinese Buddhism, says Gong, making Yuen an heir—even a reincarnation, perhaps—of the great Indian Buddhist sage Nāgārjuna (ca. 200). Comparing Yuen to Nāgārjuna, the author of Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Ch. Zhonglun 中論...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2024) 11 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in restructuring medieval understandings of the relationships among words, images, and things. Other recent publications include essays on Song epigraphy, ceramics, and the “geoaesthetics” of rock-cut Buddhist sculpture. PAULA VARSANO is professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages...
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