A Forest of Knowledge: A Collection of Essays on Texts and Images in Celebration of Professor Koichi Shinohara’s Eightieth Birthday
Edited by Jinhua CHEN
Series: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies VI
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-17276-8-9
Paperback ISBN: 978-981-17282-0-4
Publishing Date: 2022
Publisher: World Scholastic Publishers
Pages: 648
With its primary focus on the text and image interaction in the study of Medieval Asian Buddhism, this volume collects some of the English essays presented at a conference in celebration of Professor Shinohara’s eightieth birthday in 2021. It honours Prof. Koichi Shinohara and his impact upon the fields of Chinese Buddhist studies, East Asian Buddhist studies, Religious studies, and those who specialize in cross-cultural research about sacred biographies or hagiographies.
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- Preface: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies (by ZHAN Ru 湛如)
- List of Publications by Professor Kōichi Shinohara
- A Recent Photo of Professor Kōichi Shinohara
- Homage to My Teacher Shinohara (by CHEN Jinhua 陳金華)
- Preface: Buddhist Practices and Esoteric Buddhist Rituals: A Study of East Asian Buddhism of Kōichi Shinohara (LI Wei 李巍)
1. History and His Stories: Sectarian Accounts and Monastic Biographya
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- 1.1. Expanding the Master(’s) Hagiography: The Fo benxing ji jing, An Understudied Biography of the Buddha
Max DEEG - 1.2. A Forest of Accounts of Compiling the Buddhist Canon: Daoshi on Collecting and Collected Scriptures
Alexander O. HSU 徐恩熙 - 1.3. When ‘Universal History’ Backfired: Qian Qianyi (1582–1664) on Tiantai Buddhism
CHEN Lang 陳朗
- 1.1. Expanding the Master(’s) Hagiography: The Fo benxing ji jing, An Understudied Biography of the Buddha
2. Charms of Icons
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- 2.1. On Buddhist Image Processions and Monastic Fund Drives in Early and Medieval India
Gregory SCHOPEN - 2.2. Xuanzang’s Indian Icons
Robert L. BROWN - 2.3. Daoxuan and the Medieval Chinese Encounter with Relics and Images
Nelson LANDRY
- 2.1. On Buddhist Image Processions and Monastic Fund Drives in Early and Medieval India
3. Inter-faiths
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- 3.1. Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes towards Non-Buddhist practitioners in India
James A. BENN - 3.2. From Gandhāra to China: A Study on the Great God of the Five Paths
SUN Yinggang 孫英剛 - 3.3. Kuaiji’s 會稽 ‘Forgotten Century’, the Cult of Yu 大禹, and Kuaiji Today
Michael NYLAN & Thomas H. HAHN - 3.4. Textuality and Materiality: A Comparative Perspective on Buddhist and Daoist Stone Lanterns in Tang China
CHEN Huaiyu 陳懷宇
- 3.1. Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes towards Non-Buddhist practitioners in India
4. Esoteric Buddhism
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- 4.1. Text and Image in Wuyue: An Investigation of King Qian Chu’s Printing of the Precious Chest Seal Dhāraṇī Sūtra
Albert WELTER - 4.2. From Scriptural to Familial: Textual Shifts of Zunsheng Dhāranī Tomb Pillars in Middle Period Northern Shanxi
Jinping WANG 王錦萍 - 4.3. Joining the Eagle Peak Assembly: Text, Image, and Religious Identity in Nichiren’s ‘Great Mandala’
Jacqueline I. STONE - 4.4. On the Transmission of Sacred Teachings Documents as Depictions of Transmission in Medieval Shingon Buddhism in Japan: On Zenne’s 禅恵 (1284–1364) and His Ryūronshō 龍論鈔 [Notes on Nāgārjuna’s Treatise]
George A. KEYWORTH
- 4.1. Text and Image in Wuyue: An Investigation of King Qian Chu’s Printing of the Precious Chest Seal Dhāraṇī Sūtra
