Title: The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography
(Studies in East Asian Buddhism: Book 10)
Author: John Kieschnick
Publisher: A Kuroda Institute Book, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu
Date: 1 October 1997
Length: 219 pages
ISBN: 0-8248-1841-5
From Amazon Reviews:
This study of medieval Chinese monks is solid and well written. The author has gone through all the basic sources and divided medieval monastic life into three main categories: asceticism, thaumaturgy, and scholarship. He probes each of these in detail, revealing complexities and contradictions in monastic identity. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval Chinese Buddhism.
About the Author:
John Kieschnick received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1995. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, he took up his current position as an assistant researcher at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica in Taipei.
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(Studies in East Asian Buddhism: Book 10)
Author: John Kieschnick
Publisher: A Kuroda Institute Book, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu
Date: 1 October 1997
Length: 219 pages
ISBN: 0-8248-1841-5
From Amazon Reviews:
This study of medieval Chinese monks is solid and well written. The author has gone through all the basic sources and divided medieval monastic life into three main categories: asceticism, thaumaturgy, and scholarship. He probes each of these in detail, revealing complexities and contradictions in monastic identity. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval Chinese Buddhism.
About the Author:
John Kieschnick received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1995. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, he took up his current position as an assistant researcher at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica in Taipei.
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