The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

H-Buddhism NEW BOOK> Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

Discussion published by Jiang Wu on Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona is proud to announce the publication of Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, edited by our own Professor Jiang Wu in conjunction with Lucille Chia of the University of California Riverside. The volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era, bringing together investigations of the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation in the development of East Asian Buddhist culture. The book is published by Columbia University Press. Please check it out at http://cup.columbia.edu/book/spreading-buddhas-word-in-east-asia/9780231171601.

Preface, by Lewis Lancaster Acknowledgments Conventions Introduction, by Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia Part I: Overview 1. The Chinese Buddhist Canon Through the Ages: Essential Categories and Critical Issues in the Study of a Textual Tradition, by Jiang Wu 2. From the "Cult of the Book" to the "Cult of the Canon": A Neglected Tradition in Chinese Buddhism, by Jiang Wu Part II: The Formative Period 3. Notions and Visions of the Canon in Early Chinese Buddhism, by Stefano Zacchetti 4. Fei Changfang's Lidai sanbao ji and Its Role in the Formation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, by Tanya Storch Part III: The Advent of Printing 5. The Birth of the First Printed Canon: The Kaibao Edition and Its Impact, by Jiang Wu, Lucille Chia, and Chen Zhichao 6. The Life and Afterlife of Qisha Canon, by Lucille Chia 7. Managing the Dharma Treasure: Collation, Carving, Printing, and Distribution of the Canon in Late Imperial China, by Darui Long Part IV: The Canon Beyond China 8. Better Than the Original: The Creation of Goryeo Canon and the Formation of Giyang Pulgyo, by Jiang Wu and Ron Dziwenka 9. Taisho Canon: Devotion, Scholarship, and Nationalism in the Creation of the Modern

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Buddhist Canon in Japan, by Greg Wilkinson Appendix 1. A Brief Survey of the Printed Editions of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, by Li Fuhua and He Mei Appendix 2. The Creation of the CBETA Electronic Tripitaka Collection in Taiwan, by Aming Tu Bibliography List of Contributors Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jiang Wu is professor of Chinese religion and thought in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. His research interests include Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen Buddhism and the Chinese Buddhist canon; Sino-Japanese Buddhist exchanges; and the application of GIS tools in the study of Chinese culture and religion. He is the author of Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China and Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia.

Lucille Chia is professor of history at the University of California at Riverside. Her research interests include Chinese book culture, most recently the history of Buddhist publishing in imperial China. She is the authorPrinting of for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Song-Ming (960–1644) and coeditor ofKnowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900–1400.