Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies

Thriving in Crisis : Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522–1620

Late imperial Chinese Buddhism was long dismissed as having declined from the ...

Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia : The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the stu...

Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas : Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals

Koichi Shinohara traces the evolution of Esoteric Buddhist rituals from the si...

The Body Incantatory : Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wild...

Recovering Buddhism in Modern China

Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, ...

Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers

Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman ...

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism : Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a dist...

The Science of Chinese Buddhism : Early Twentieth-Century Engagements

Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth cen...

Sacred Economies : Buddhist Monasticism and Territoriality in Medieval China

The Renewal of Buddhism in China (Fortieth Anniversary Edition) : Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in ...