Subject: Tags: Spam prevention:Please, enter the code that you see below in the input field. This is for blocking bots that try to post this form automatically. If the code is hard to read, then just try to guess it right. If you enter the wrong code, a new image is created and you get another chance to enter it right.Enter code: Content: CBSF_adm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in > Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese BuddhismChen-kuo > Lin and Michael Radich (eds.) Hamburg > University Press, 2014.In this book, an > international team of fourteen scholars > investigates the Chinese reception of Indian > Buddhist ideas, especially in the sixth and > seventh centuries. Topics include Buddhist logic > and epistemology (pramāṇa, yinming); > commentaries on Indian Buddhist texts; Chinese > readings of systems as diverse as Madhyamaka, > Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha; the working out > of Indian concepts and problematics in new Chinese > works; and previously under-studied Chinese > evidence for developments in India. The authors > aim to consider the ways that these Chinese > materials might furnish evidence of broader > Buddhist trends, thereby problematizing a > prevalent notion of “sinification”, which has > led scholars to consider such materials > predominantly in terms of trends ostensibly > distinctive to China. The volume also tries to go > beyond seeing sixth- and seventh-century China > primarily as the age of the formation and > establishment of the Chinese Buddhist > “schools”. The authors attempt to view the > ideas under study on their own terms, as valid > Buddhist ideas engendered in a rich, “liminal” > space of interchange between two large > traditions.For more info and free full-text: click > here