Buddhism in East Asia: Aspects of History's First Universal Religion Presented in the Modern Context Book

Contents: 1. The study of East Asian Buddhism in the West: a brief overview/Max Deeg. 2. Making culture portable: silk road merchants and monks as a bridge between Indian and East Asian Buddhism/Amita Satyal. 3. Monks and merchants in the making of a transoceanic world: Chan Missionaries in maritime East Asia 1650-1750/Charles J. Wheeler. 4. Chinese translation of Buddhist Sutras related to filial piety as a response to Confucian criticism of Buddhists being unfilial/Guang Xing. 5. Eccentric portraits: image, visuality and the challenge of chan art/Paramita Paul. 6. Japanes zen monk sesshu toyo's art/Anu Jindal. 7. Masters of the Tibetan mani mantra/Zsoka Gelle. 8. Nagarjuna on temporary happiness and liberation: readings of the Ratnavali in India, Tibet and China/Burkhard Scherer. 9. Faxian, xuanzang yijing hye ch's and zhao Rugua as sources for the study of the decline of Buddhism in India/K.T.S. Sarao. 10. Literary resources of Indo-newar Buddhism in Japan/Shanker Thapa…

History's first world religion played its role in bringing the known lauds of those times together, grew according to the genius and needs of their own cultures, making human living more picturesque and meaningful and remains relevant in modern hard times, expanding in social service and other activities, such as in Taiwan, Dalai Lama's peace initiatives etc. The editor, an authority on the subject, presents in the work a careful selection of interesting as well as generally unknown aspects of this unusually  vigorous and spread far and wide human culture for the lay reader as well as scholar and research students all over the world.

The religion of peace and compassion, especially welcome in modern times of terror, presents its vaster panorama in this carefully selected interesting work, contributed by scholars of repute from all over the world-about China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan etc., including its excursions into the much effective social services, a significant contribution to meaningful publishing. Buddhism in modern times is much respected subject and the work fulfils the great need to giving it the required ambience and authority. (jacket)