Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50961-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Studies on East Asian Religions

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their texts, material culture, ideas, and institutions legitimated rulers and defended regimes across the region.

The volume also reveals a history of Buddhist writing, protest, and rebellion against the state.

Contributors are Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn, Megan Bryson, Gregory N. Evon, Geoffrey C. Goble, Richard D. McBride II, and Jacqueline I. Stone.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balkwill, Stephanie

Benn, James A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Stephanie Balkwill and James Benn

1 Metropolitan Buddhism vis-à-vis Buddhism at the Metropolis: How to Understand the Ling in the Empress Dowager’s Name

Stephanie Balkwill

2 Silla King Chinhung Institutes State-Protection Buddhist Rituals

Richard D. McBride II

3 The Commissioner of Merit and Virtue: Buddhism and the Tang Central Government

Geoffrey C. Goble

4 Images of Humane Kings: Rulers in the Dali-Kingdom Painting of Buddhist Images

Megan Bryson

5 Buddhism and Statecraft in Korea: The Long View

Gregory N. Evon

6 Refusing the Ruler’s Offerings: Accommodation and Martyrdom in Early Modern Nichiren Buddhism

Jacqueline I. Stone

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie Balkwill, Ph.D. (2015), McMaster University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism at the University of California, Los Angeles. She publishes on the social, political, and intellectual history of Buddhist women in early medieval China.

James A. Benn, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at McMaster University. He is the author of Burning for the Buddha: Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007) and Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015).