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Buddhist Historiography in China

By John Kieschnick

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780231556095
DOI
10.7312/kies20562
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3374310 bytes)
Pages
\296
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 01:26:10

Description

John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens. Exploring a series of themes in mainstream Buddhist historiographical works from the fifth to the twentieth century, he looks for what they tell us about their compilers’ understanding of history.

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