Buddhism in East Asia : Continuity and Change in the Great Tradition Book

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Transmission of Buddhism from Kashmir to China/Advaitavadini Kaul. 2. Buddhism from taxila to China/Muhammad Ilyas Bhatti. 3. Silk road traders and Buddhism in Han and Ta'ng china/Xiaoming Wang and Yali Lin. 4. Confucianism and assimilation of Buddhism in China/Tong Sau Lin. 5. Lineal interrelationship between Bhikshuni Sangha in China and Sri Lanka/Indaratana Bakamoone. 6. Dhyanabhadra and Indian Buddhism in East Asia/Shanker Thapa. 7. The impact of silk road Buddhism on Sindh/K.T.S. Sarao. 8. Vision of the heaven in the far east/Arputha Rani Sengupta. 9. Art of India and East Asia: the eleven-headed avalokitesvara/Shrikant Ganvir. 10. Emperor Asoka in Japanese folk tales/Saroj Kumar Chaudhari. 11. Buddhism and Japanese poetry: translations of Haiku/Tariq Sheikh. 12. Cultural environment of unified silla and the seokguram cave temple/Anu Jindal. 13. Indramang: Buddhist Community movement in Korea/Santosh K. Gupta. 14. Lama Mani: the wandering moral teachers/Ghese Dorjee Damdul. General Bibliography.

This volume primarily focuses on various aspects of Buddhism in China and beyond. Each of
the fourteen papers covers a particular aspect of the history of Chinese Buddhism through which
an attempt has been made to show that China played an important role not only in the growth and
development of Mahayana Buddhism but also in the Sinicization of the Buddha Dharma. Further,
China's role in transmitting Buddhist tenets eastward into Korea and Japan has also been
highlighted.(jacket)