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The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography

The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography

Kieschnick, John

Paperback

Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism, Book 10

BuddhismChinese History

ISBN10: 0824818415
ISBN13: 9780824818418
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Jul 1 1997
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In an attempt to reconstruct an elusive aspect of the medieval Chinese imagination, The Eminent Monk examines biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks, from the uncompromising ascetic to the unfathomable wonder-worker.

While analyzing images of the monk in medieval China, the author addresses some questions encountered along the way: What are we to make of accounts in eminent monk collections of deviant monks who violate monastic precepts? Who wrote biographies of monks and who read them? How did different segments of Chinese society contend for the image of the monk and which image prevailed?

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