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
Series: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies VI
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-17276-8-9
Paperback ISBN: 978-981-17282-0-4
Publishing Date: 2022
Publisher: World Scholastic Publishers
Pages: 648
Table of Contents
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- Preface: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies (by ZHAN Ru 湛如)
- List of Publications by Professor Kōichi Shinohara
- A Recent Photo of Professor Kōichi Shinohara
- Homage to My Teacher Shinohara (by CHEN Jinhua 陳金華)
- Preface: Buddhist Practices and Esoteric Buddhist Rituals: A Study of East Asian Buddhism of Kōichi Shinohara (LI Wei 李巍)
- History and His Stories: Sectarian Accounts and Monastic Biography
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- 1.1. Expanding the Master(’s) Hagiography: The Fo benxing ji jing, An Understudied Biography of the Buddha
Max DEEG
- 1.2. A Forest of Accounts of Compiling the Buddhist Canon: Daoshi on Collecting and Collected Scriptures
Alexander O. HSU 徐恩熙
- 1.3. When ‘Universal History’ Backfired: Qian Qianyi (1582–1664) on Tiantai Buddhism
CHEN Lang 陳朗
- Charms of Icons
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- 2.1. On Buddhist Image Processions and Monastic Fund Drives in Early and Medieval India
Gregory SCHOPEN
- 2.2. Xuanzang’s Indian Icons
Robert L. BROWN
- 2.3. Daoxuan and the Medieval Chinese Encounter with Relics and Images
Nelson LANDRY
- Inter-faiths
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- 3.1. Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes towards Non-Buddhist practitioners in India
James A. BENN
- 3.2. From Gandhāra to China: A Study on the Great God of the Five Paths
SUN Yinggang 孫英剛
- 3.3. Kuaiji’s 會稽 ‘Forgotten Century’, the Cult of Yu 大禹, and Kuaiji Today
Michael NYLAN & Thomas H. HAHN
- 3.4. Textuality and Materiality: A Comparative Perspective on Buddhist and Daoist Stone Lanterns in Tang China
CHEN Huaiyu 陳懷宇
- Esoteric Buddhism
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- 4.1. Text and Image in Wuyue: An Investigation of King Qian Chu’s Printing of the Precious Chest Seal Dhāraṇī Sūtra
Albert WELTER
- 4.2. From Scriptural to Familial: Textual Shifts of Zunsheng Dhāranī Tomb Pillars in Middle Period Northern Shanxi
Jinping WANG 王錦萍
- 4.3. Joining the Eagle Peak Assembly: Text, Image, and Religious Identity in Nichiren’s ‘Great Mandala’
Jacqueline I. STONE
- 4.4. 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]
George A. KEYWORTH
- Author Biographies
- Index of Titles
- General Index
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