The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture (eBook)

John Kieschnick (Autor)

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2020
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21404-7 (ISBN)

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From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. At the same time, Buddhism had a profound effect on the material world of the Chinese. This wide-ranging study shows that Buddhism brought with it a vast array of objects big and small--relics treasured as parts of the body of the Buddha, prayer beads, and monastic clothing--as well as new ideas about what objects could do and how they should be treated. Kieschnick argues that even some everyday objects not ordinarily associated with Buddhism--bridges, tea, and the chair--on closer inspection turn out to have been intimately tied to Buddhist ideas and practices. Long after Buddhism ceased to be a major force in India, it continued to influence the development of material culture in China, as it does to the present day. At first glance, this seems surprising. Many Buddhist scriptures and thinkers rejected the material world or even denied its existence with great enthusiasm and sophistication. Others, however, from Buddhist philosophers to ordinary devotees, embraced objects as a means of expressing religious sentiments and doctrines. What was a sad sign of compromise and decline for some was seen as strength and versatility by others. Yielding rich insights through its innovative analysis of particular types of objects, this briskly written book is the first to systematically examine the ambivalent relationship, in the Chinese context, between Buddhism and material culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
• Reihe/Serie: Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Academia Sinica • Aloeswood • ancient China • Ancient India • Anecdote • Asceticism • Bai Juyi • Bharhut • Bhikkhu • Bodhidharma • Bodhisattva • Bodhi Tree • Buddhism • Buddhist art • Buddhist devotion • Buddhist prayer beads • buddhist texts • Calligraphy • Cambodia • Central Asia • Ceylon • Cheng Dachang • Chinese Buddhism • Chinese Culture • Christian monasticism • Confucius • consecration • courtesy • Daizong • deity • diamond sutra • Doctrine • Dunhuang • Early Buddhism • edict • Emblem • Emptiness • Ennin • ephemerality • Epigraphy • Evolution • Exegesis • Fang Guan • Faxian • Feng Yan • Frankincense • gems • gongfu cha • Guanyin • Han Yu • Hongren • huineng • Iconoclasm • Iconography • Illustration • Incense • Japan • Jiaoran • Kang Senghui • Karma • Kuiji • Laity • Lidai fabao ji • Literature • Longmen • Lotus Sutra • Luoyang • Maitreya • Marett, R. R. • material culture • Meditation • Missionary • Monastery • Monasticism • narrative • Nestorianism • paper • perfection of wisdom • Persecution • Philology • piety • Pratyekabuddha • Prayer Beads • purple robe • Qin Shihuang • Qin Shi Huang • recitation • Relic • Religion • Religious image • religious text • Renunciation • Rite • Rosary • Ruyi (scepter) • Sanskrit • scrutiny • Sermon • shengchuang • shenhui • shimi • Sima Qian • Sinology • Six Dynasties • Song dynasty • splendor • Srama?a • Stele • Stupa • Sugarcane • Sutra • Tao Hongjing • Taoism • The Buddhist (TV channel) • The Other Hand • Tibet • tomb • treatise • Vihara • Vinaya • Wang Wei • Wendi • Writing • written chinese • Xuanzang • Yijing (monk) • Zhao Yi • Zhiyi • Zhu Xi
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21404-2 / 0691214042
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21404-7 / 9780691214047