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Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician
副标题: the Many Lives of Fazang
ISBN: 9789004156135
出版社: BRILL
出版年: 2007
页数: 542
定价: USD 224.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
The Buddhist monk Fazang (643-712), regarded today mainly as a scholastic monk, was in fact one of the greatest metaphysicians in Asia. This biographical - and hagiographical - study of Fazang seeks to explore his other contributions and in so doing to correct some major mis-presentations and misinterpretations existing in modern scholarship. It highlights and uncovers aspects of Fazang’s complicated life which have been neglected or ignored until now.
By experimenting with some methodological innovations in reading medieval Chinese monastic hagio-biography, this study reveals general features, structures and overall governing laws of medieval East Asian monastic hagio-biographic literature. In doing so it is a major contribution to the ongoing discussion among scholars of hagiography in other contexts as well.
作者简介
Jinhua Chen, Ph.D. (1997), McMaster University, is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on East Asian Buddhism, including Making and Remaking History (1999), Monks and Monarchs, Kinship and Kingship (2002), and Legend and Legitimation (2007).
