The Study of Chinese Buddhism in the U.S. Lewis Lancaster
Taiwan April, 2015
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Sectarian/Schools Pure Land Chan
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John McCrea Chan Oxhead School Loose fellowship Mostly known
through Dunhuang manuscripts Deceased
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Robert Sharf Pure Land is a bibliographical category rather
than an institution Reinterpreting study of Chinese Buddhism
University of California, Berkeley
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Charles Orzech Cosmology and Tantra in political power. Denial
of the position that Tantra is the last decaying phase of Indian
Buddhism Bristol University, U.K.
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A. Welter Chan and politics University of Arizona
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Monasteries Vinaya
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Gareth Fisher Anthropologist studying the new monastic
construction projects in the PRC Syracuse University
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Mazio Poceski Hongzhou School Monastic codes in Medieval China
University of Florida
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Susan Naquin Buddhist temples of Beijing during the Ming and
Qing dynasties. Princeton University
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Dynasties
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Peter Gregory Sung was more the Golden Age of Buddhism than the
Tang Smith College
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Marsha Weidner Buddhist decline after the Tang is incorrect.
Interdisciplinary culture based studies offer a different picture.
University of Kansas
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Chi-chiang Huang Sung dynasty Buddhist history and the
relationship to the royal court Hobart-Smith Colleges
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Morton Schlutter Platform Sutra Sung dynasty politics and
Buddhism University of Iowa
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Darui Long Northern Ming Edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
University of the West
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Canon/Textual Catalogues
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Jiang Wu When did the first set of the Chinese Buddhist canon
arrive in Europe? University of Arizona
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Tanya Storch Study of catalogs and Chinese bibliographical
sources How accurate are the ancient catalogs? Buddhist
universities in the U.S. University of the Pacific
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Jan Nattier Early translations of Chinese texts University of
Indiana (retired)
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Robert Buswell/ Donald Lopez Reference work Chinese Buddhist
texts and apocrypha UCLA/University of Michigan
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Contemporary PRC Taiwan
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20 th century Reform
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Holmes Welch If Taixu had succeeded would Buddhism have been
Buddhism? Deceased
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Charles Jones Buddhism in Taiwan 1660-1990 Catholic University
of America
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Don Pittman Taixus reforms of Buddhism after the Taiping
Rebellion. Phillips Theological Seminary
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Daoism
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Josh Capitanio Buddhist Taoist interface University of the
West
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Meditation
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Livia Kohn Comparison of Chan and Daoist practices of
meditation Boston University
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Eric Greene Chinese meditation from 400-600 C.E. was related to
the rituals of repentance. University of California, Berkeley
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Art
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Stan Abe Buddhism and Modern Aestheticism Chinese Buddhist
Sculpture Duke University
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T Griffith Foulk Critical of Art History that divorces art from
original cultural contexts Maintains too much reliance on Sutras
and on the physical appearance of images Sarah Lawrence
College
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Daniel Stevenson Meaning of an image is not fixed but open to
interpretation Buddhist rituals of the Tiantai and Pure Land.
University of Kansas
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Body Cremation Immolation
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Raoul Birnbaum Healing Buddha and art associated with him
Contemporary Buddhism in PRC University of California, Santa
Cruz
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James A. Benn Study of self- immolation the role of the body in
Chinese Buddhist rituals and events Mc Master University
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Marcus Bingenheimer Formerly with CBETA Study of the life of
Yinshun Relics of the Whole Body show that Buddhism introduced the
idea of mummification to China Temple University
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John Kieschnick Material Culture Blood Writing of Buddhist
texts Stanford University
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Ritual
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Stephen Teiser Buddhism and Chinese practices regarding
reincarnation, hells, Ghost Festival Princeton University
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Buddhist Theology
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William Chu Buddhist theology and meditation University of the
West
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Roger Jackson/John Makransky Buddhist Theology
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Robert Gimello Buddhist thought in China, including Tantra
Catholic theological perspectives on Buddhism Notre Dame
University
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Gender
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Marian Levering Gender in the Chan tradition Women in Chinese
Buddhism University of Tennessee