Jiang Wu (1)
Auteur van Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China
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Jiang Wu is an associate professor 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 spatial analysis tools in toon meer the study of religion and culture. He is the author of Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China (2008). toon minder
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Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China (2008) 19 exemplaren
Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon (The Sheng… (2015) 13 exemplaren
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Tucson, Arizona, USA - Opleiding
- Nankai University, 1987-1991 (B.A. ∙ Philosophy and English ∙ B.A. ∙ Philosophy and English)
Nankai University, 1991-1994 (M.A. ∙ Chinese Philosophy)
Harvard University, 1996-2002 (Ph.D. ∙ Chinese Religions ∙ Chinese Buddhism ∙ Chinese Intellectual History) - Beroepen
- Associate professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona
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- University of Arizona
Harvard University
Nankai University
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- Dr. Jiang Wu is currently an associate professor in Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona (Tucson). He received his Masters degree from Nankai University (1994) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (2002). His research interests include seventeenth-century Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen Buddhism, the role of Buddhist canons in the formation of East Asian Buddhist culture, and the historical exchanges between Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism. Other interests include Confucianism, Chinese intellectual history and social history, and the application of electronic cultural atlas tools in the study of Chinese culture and religion. He has published articles in Asia Major, Journal of East Asian History, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Monumenta Serica on a variety of topics. His first book Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-century China has been published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
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Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan… door Jiang Wu
Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment of the time. He investigates the development of Chan Buddhism in the seventeenth century, focusing on controversies involving issues such as correct practice and lines of lineage. In this way, he shows how the Chan revival reshaped Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China. Situating these controversies alongside major events of the fateful Ming-Qing transition, Wu shows how the rise and fall of Chan Buddhism was conditioned by social changes in the seventeenth century.… (meer)
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