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Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism
The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school began when, in seventh-century China, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. It has reached international popularity, its teachings disseminated across cultures far and wide. In Monks, Rulers, and Literati, Albert Welter presents, for the first time in a comprehensive fashion in a Western work, the story of the rise of Chan, a story which has been obscured by myths about Zen. Zen apologists in the twentieth century, Welter argues, sold the world on the story...
Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu
Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing their critical role in the contested Buddhist and intellectual territories of the Five Dynasties and early Song dynasty China. Welter gives a comprehensive study of Yanshou's life, showing how Yanshou's Buddhist identity has been and continues to be disputed. He also provides an in-depth examination of the Zongjing lu, connecting it to Chan debates ongoing at the time of its writing. This analysis includes a discussion of ...
Chinese Religious Art
Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical eras including the Shang dynasty (1300-1050 BCE) and Zhou Dynasty(1000-221 BCE) up until the era of the First Emperor (221-210 BCE) Part Two treats Confucianism as a religious tradition examining its scriptures, images, temples and rituals. Adopted as the state ideology in the Han dynasty, Confucian ideas permeated society for over two thousand years. Filial piety, ethical behavior and other pr...
Zen Masters
Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen literature (Zen Classics and The Zen Canon) and two volumes on Zen practice (The Koan and Zen Ritual) they now propose a volume on the most significant product of the Zen tradition - the Zen masters who have made this kind of Buddhism the most renowned in the world by emphasizing the role of eminent spiritual leaders and their function in establishing centers, forging lineages, and creating literature and art. Zen masters in China, and later in Korea and Japan, were among the cultural leaders of t...
Buddhism in Global Perspective
Accompanying DVD: The Royal ploughing ceremony of Thailand.
Genealogy of the Stukey, Ream, Grove, Clem, and Denniston Families
John Stukey (1710-1786) came to Pennsylvania from Switzerland in 1736 and settled in Lancater County. He was born between Thun and Berne in the canton of Berne. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere. Hans Andreas Riem (1642-1719) was born in Leimen, Germany. His descendants Johann Eberhard Ream (1687-1779) was born in Leiman, Germany. He married Anna Elisabeth Schwab (1692-1761). They immigrated to Pennsylvania ca. 1717-1718. Johann Davidt Clem or Klemm immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1747 and later settled in Powell's Fort Valley, Virginia. He died n 1789. Christian Grove (died 1786) married (1) Ann Rodes and (2) Esther Musselman and lived in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Includes family of his brother, Marks Grove (died 1808). John Denniston (died 1853) was born in Pennsylvania. He lived in New Bethlehem and married Mary Millison (1809-1868). Some of his family then settled in Missouri. Also includes the family of Heinrich and Barbara Lerch Leinbach who lived in Langenselbold, Prussia, Germany.
