A Forest of Knowledge
Editor: Jinhua CHEN
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-17276-8-9
Paperback ISBN: 978-981-17282-0-4
Date of Publication: 2022
Pages: 648
PRODUCT INFO
A Forest of Knowledge: A Collection of Essays on Texts and Images in Celebration of Professor Koichi Shinohara’s Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Jinhua Chen, 2022.
With its primary focus on the text and image interaction in the study of Medieval Asian Buddhism, this volume collects some of the English essays presented at a conference in celebration of Professor Shinohara's eightieth birthday in 2021. It honours Prof. Koichi Shinohara and his impact upon the fields of Chinese Buddhist studies, East Asian Buddhist studies, Religious studies, and those who specialize in cross-cultural research about sacred biographies or hagiographies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies: A General Preface (Zhan Ru 湛如)
List of Publications by Professor Kōichi Shinohara
A Recent Photo of Professor Kōichi Shinohara
Homage to My Teacher Shinohara (CHEN Jinhua 陳金華)
Preface: Buddhist Practices and Esoteric Buddhist Rituals: A Study of East Asian Buddhism of Koichi Shinohara (LI Wei 李巍)
1. History and His Stories: Sectarian Accounts and Monastic Biography
1.1. Max DEEG: Expanding the Master(’s) Hagiography: The Fo benxing ji jing, An Understudied Biography of the Buddha
1.2. Alexander O. HSU 徐恩熙: A Forest of Accounts of Compiling the Buddhist Canon: Daoshi on Collecting and Collected Scriptures
1.3. CHEN Lang 陳朗: When ‘Universal History’ Backfired: Qian Qianyi (1582–1664) on Tiantai Buddhism
2. Charms of Icons
2.1. Gregory SCHOPEN: On Buddhist Image Processions and Monastic Fund Drives in Early and Medieval India
2.2. Robert L. BROWN: Xuanzang’s Indian Icons
2.3. Nelson Elliot LANDRY: Daoxuan and the Medieval Chinese Encounter with Relics and Images
3. Inter-faiths
3.1. James A. BENN: Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards Non-Buddhist Practitioners in India
3.2. SUN Yinggang 孫英剛: From Gandhāra to China: A Study on the Great God of the Five Paths
3.3. Michael NYLAN & Thomas H. HAHN: Kuaiji’s 會稽 ‘Forgotten Century’, the Cult of Yu 大禹, and Kuaiji Today
3.4. CHEN Huaiyu 陳懷宇: Textuality and Materiality: A Comparative Perspective on Buddhist and Daoist Stone Lanterns in Tang China
4. Esoteric Buddhism
4.1. Albert WELTER: Text and Image in Wuyue: An Investigation of King Qian Chu’s Printing of the Precious Chest Seal Dhāraṇī Sūtra
4.2. WANGJinping 王錦萍: From Scriptural to Familial: Textual Shifts of Zunsheng Dhāranī Tomb Pillars in Middle Period Northern Shanxi
4.3. Jacqueline I. STONE: Joining the Eagle Peak Assembly: Text, Image, and Religious Identity in Nichiren’s ‘Great Mandala’
4.4. George A. KEYWORTH: On the Transmission of Sacred Teachings Documents as Depictions of Transmission in Medieval Shingon Buddhism in Japan: On Zenne’s 禅恵 (1284–1364) and His Ryūronshō 龍論鈔 [Notes on Nāgārjuna’s Treatise]
Author Bibliographies
Index of Titles
General Index
