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Title: Buddhism in China by Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en ISBN: 0-691-00015-8 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1972 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Introduction to Chinese Buddhism
Comment: I checked this book out from the library on a whim and I've been very pleasantly surprised. Professor Chen offers a highly readable account of historical buddhism in China and does a fine job introducing the most important figures and schools. This book will be of interest to anyone who would like to learn how buddhism developed in China and how it both influenced and received the influence of the other important Chinese philosophies, especially Daoism and Confucianism. I haven't finished it yet but I can already offer my almost unconditional recommendation. There are a few minor drawbacks of note:
1) he wrote the book in 1964 and this is the 1973 printing. The historical information is still valid, as far aas I know, but unfortunately romanization has passed him by--the book uses the now largely defunct Wade-Giles romanization system.
2) More maps would be helpful, especially since early dynastic kingdoms played such an important role in the integration of Buddhism into Chinese culture.
3) thankfully, he does provide the Chinese characters for the Chinese language sources, but these are buried in an appendix and it is distracting flipping back and forth. It would be far more user-friendly if he would provide this information in the text, or at least in a footnote, for the first time he cites it.
But these are minor complaints--I have truly enjoyed reading this and urge any others interested int his topic to dot he same. I will definitely read his other book: The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism.
Rating: 4
Summary: this book is very enlightening, analytical thought.
Comment: very good.
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Title: The Lotus Sutra by Burton Watson ISBN: 0231081618 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Taoism: Growth of a Religion by Isabelle Robinet, Phyllis Brooks ISBN: 0804728399 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by Philip B. Yampolsky, Hui-Neng Liu-Tsu-Ta-Shih Fa Pao Tan Ching ISBN: 0231083610 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1978 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Zen: Tradition and Transition by Kenneth Kraft ISBN: 080213162X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Moon in a Dewdrop : Writings of Zen Master Dogen by Eihei Dogen, Kazuaki Tanahashi ISBN: 086547186X Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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