China Buddhism

9780824831691 Mollier: Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China. Cloth

Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China. Cloth
by Christine Mollier
256 pages. 35 illustrations. 2008. It is abundantly illustrated with drawings and diagrams from canonical and manuscript sources, together with art and artifacts photographed by the author in the course of her field research in China. Sophisticated in its analysis, broad in its synthesis of a variety of difficult material, and original in its interpretations, it will be required reading for those interested in East Asian religions and in the history of the medieval Chinese sciences, including astrology, medicine and divination.

Beal: Buddhist Literature in China. Cloth

Buddhist Literature in China. Cloth. 14x22cm
Samuel Beal
xvii, 185 pages, 5 plates, 4 and 5 are fold-outs. 1882. Published in India 1988

Sarma: Buddhist Monuments of China and South-East India. Cloth

Buddhist Monuments of China and South-East India: South Indian influences in Chinese Architecture. Cloth. 23x28 cm
by I. K. Sarma
115 pages with text, 47 plates, 8 maps. 1985 (published in India, poor quality of the photographs)

9780824829926 / Benn, Stone: Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism. Hardcover

Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism. Hardcover
by James A. Benn, Jacqueline Ilyse Stone
xiii, 360 pages. 2007. Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of “abandoning the body”(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context.

Gridley: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture under the Liao. Free Standing Works in Situ and Selected Examples from Public Collections. Hardcover

Chinese Buddhist Sculpture under the Liao. Free Standing Works in Situ and Selected Examples from Public Collections. Hardcover. Ca. 22x28.5 cm
by Marilyn Leidig Gridley
204 pages with text, bibliography, chronology, index, 132 (some fold-outs) plates, 3 maps
1. Introduction. 2. Historical background. 3. Shansi monuments. 4. Tu-lo-ssu. 5. The I-chou Lohans. 6. Feng-kuo-ssu and Shang-ching. 7. Sculptures from Public Collections

Soothill: Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms. Cloth

Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms. Cloth, ca. 22x28cm
compiled by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous
xix, 510 pages, with Sanskrit and English Equivalents, Sanskrit-Pali Index, Non Sanskrit Terms (Tibetan, etc. ) Index. 1937: reprint 2000. This volume is a dictionary of Chinese Buddhist terms. It was first published in 1937, and is specifically aimed at students of Chinese Buddhism

9780761816713 vsd Karetzky: Early Buddhist Narrative Art: Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha from Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. Paperback

Early Buddhist Narrative Art: Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha from Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. Paperback
by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
xli, 249 pages. 2000. Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan.

Cleary: Entry Into the Inconceivable. An Introduction to Hua-yen Buddhism. Cloth

Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-yen Buddhism. Cloth
Thomas Cleary
222 pages, with appendix and notes. 1996, Indian publication

Baker: The Flowering of a Foreign Faith. New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art. Cloth

Flowering of a Foreign Faith. New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art. Cloth. ca. 25x33 cm
edited by Janet Baker
148 pages, index, with many black-white and colour photographs, linedrawings

9780811845588 London: Laughing Buddha Box. Small booklet (10x11cm) and a figurine

Laughing Buddha Box. Small booklet (10x11cm) and a figurine
by Fran London
48 pages, colour photos. 2005

9780231081610 Watson: The Lotus Sutra. Paperback

Lotus Sutra. Paperback
translated by Burton Watson
359 pages, glossary, index. 1993

9780804745338 / Fraser: Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover

Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover
Sarah E. Fraser
xvi, 342 pages, numerous illustrations. 2003. Based on the careful study of hundreds of inaccessible wall paintings at Dunhuang, arguably Asia's largest and most important Buddhist site, the author shows that although critics celebrated spontaneous feats with brush and ink, artists at Dunhuang were heavily dependent on concrete tools such as sketches in the preparation of wall painting.

9783907077016 / Nickel: Die Rückkehr des Buddha: Chinesische Skulpturen des 6. Jahrhunderts. Der Tempelfund von Qing Zhou. Gebunden

Rückkehr des Buddha: Chinesische Skulpturen des 6. Jahrhunderts. Der Tempelfund von Qing Zhou. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2001, im Museum Rietberg, und in der Royal Academy of Arts. 30,5 cm. Gebunden
Herausgegeben von Lukas Nickel
236 Seiten mit zahlreiche, meist farbigen, Abbildungen im Text und auf Tafeln. 2001

0834804271 Howard: Summit of Treasures: Buddhist Cave Sculpture of Dazu, China. Hardcover

Summit of Treasures: Buddhist Cave Sculpture of Dazu, China. Hardcover
by Angela Falco Howard
xiv, 206 pages, 181 bw and colour illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. 2001. The Song dynasty Buddhist sculptures found in the cave complexes of the Baodingshan site at Dazu in the Sichuan province of China are discussed in a rich contextual study that seeks to present them as a unified iconographic whole. The development of the Sichuan artistic style is also considered.

9780691037738 / Eckel: To See the Buddha. Paper. A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness. Paperback. American edition

To See the Buddha. Paper. A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness. Paperback. American edition
Malcolm David Eckel
x, 262 pages, illustrated. 1994. Eckel takes us on a contemporary quest to discover the essential meaning behind the Buddha's many representations. He shows that the dimensions of early Indian Buddhism all work together to express the same religious yearning for the fullness of emptiness that Buddha conveys.

Wang Tianyi: Underground Art Gallery. China's Brick Paintings 1,700 Years Old. Cloth

Underground Art Gallery: China's Brick Paintings 1,700 Years Old. Cloth, ca. 23x26 cm
Paintings reproduced by Wang Tianyi
131 pages with text, 70 colour plates, many other illustrations. 1989. It was only a dozen or so years ago that a number of brick paintings in attractive colors were discovered in the ancient tombs at jiayuguan in Gansu Province of China. These paintings are around four hundred years older than the paintings discovered before 1949 by archaeologists in the famous Dunhuang grottoes, also in Gansu Province, and date back to the late Han or Wei and Jin dynasties seventeen hundred years ago

9783896601476 Reza. Coutin: Der verborgene Buddha. Höhlenmalereien in Turkestan. 25,5 cm. Gebunden

Verborgene Buddha. Höhlenmalereien in Turkestan. Photobuch. 25,5 cm. Gebunden. 1180 gram
Photographien von Reza. Texten von André Coutin, Laure Feugère und Jacques Giès
167 Seiten mit zahlreichen Farbabbildungen. 2003. Buddhistische Mönche schmückten zwischen dem 3. und dem 8. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Höhlen mit Wandmalereien. Sie stellen die Lebensphasen Buddhas in einem einzigartigen Mischstil aus iranischen, afghanische, türkischen und indischen Einflüssen dar. Die geheimnisvolle Bilderwelt und ihre Ikonographie werden hier erstmals erläutert

9780500276280 Bechert: The World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. Paperback

World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. Paperback
by Richard Gombrich, Etienne Lamotte and Heinz Bechert (Editor)
over 308 pages, 82 colour and 215 black-white photo's, maps, drawings. 1991, new edition