The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism
- ISBN 13:
9781118610336
- ISBN 10:
1118610334
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/05/2014
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed and is practiced in this region. These newly-commissioned essays provide fresh scholarly perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, and practices.
- Offers a comprehensive and balanced survey of Buddhism within East and Central Asia, from the time of the Buddha through to the present day
- Provides fresh perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, traditions, doctrines, practices, and institutions – on topics spanning gender roles, tantric rituals, and the spread of Zen into Europe
- Brings together cutting-edge research by an interdisciplinary and international contributor team, including historians, literature scholars, and historians, as well as those from religious studies
- Presents a panoramic view of the extraordinary richness and variety of local Buddhist expressions and practices within Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Tibetan, cultures