本书是一部藏传佛教密宗名著，讲述了“死亡的艺术”不仅跟“生活的艺术”或者“出生的艺术”同样重要，且为“活的艺术”或“生的艺术”的补充和圆成。

Practicing Scripture is an original and detailed history of one of the most successful religious movements of late imperial China, the Non-Action Teachings, or Wuweijiao, from its beginnings in the late sixteenth century in the prefectures of southern Zhejiang to the middle of the twentieth century, when communist repression dealt it a crippling blow. Uncovering important data on its beliefs and practices, Barend ter Haar paints a wholly new picture of the group, which, despite its Daoist-sounding name, was a deeply devout lay Buddhist movement whose adherents rejected the worship of statues and ancestors while venerating the writings of Patriarch Luo (fl. early sixteenth century), a soldier-turned-lay-Buddhist. The texts, written in vernacular Chinese and known as the Five Books in Six Volumes, mix personal experiences, religious views, and a wealth of quotations from the Buddhist canon.
Ter Haar convincingly demonstrates that the Non-Action Teachings was not messianic or millenarian in orientation and had nothing to do with other new religious groups and networks traditionally labelled as White Lotus Teachings. It combined Chan and Pure Land practices with a strong self-identity and vegetarianism and actively insisted on the right of free practice. Members of the movement created a foundation myth in which Ming (1368–1644) emperor Zhengde bestowed the right upon their mythical forefather. In addition, they produced an imperial proclamation whereby Emperor Kangxi of the Qing (1645–1911) granted the group similar privileges.
Thanks to its expert handling of a great number and variety of extant sources, Practicing Scripture depicts one of the few lay movements in traditional China that can be understood in some depth, both in terms of its religious content and history and its social environment. The work will be welcomed by China specialists in religious and Buddhist studies and social history.

Riven by Lust explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Indian Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major canonical languages of Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese, along the way noting parallels and contrasts with classical and medieval European stories such as the legend of the Oedipal Judas. Simultaneously, he investigates the psychological and anthropological understandings of the tale of mother-son incest in light of contemporary psychological and anthropological understandings of incest, with special attention to the question of why we consider it among the worst of crimes.
In seeking to understand how the story worked in Indian texts and for Indian audiences--as well as how it might work for modern readers--this book has both horizontal and vertical dimensions, probing the place of the Oedipal in Indian culture, Buddhist and non-Buddhist, and simultaneously framing the Indian Oedipal within broader human concerns, thereby contributing to the study of the history of Buddhism, the transmission of narratives in the ancient world, and the fundamental nature of one aspect of human sexuality.
Starting from a brief reference in a polemical treatise, Riven by Lust demonstrates that its authors borrowed and intentionally adapted a preexisting story of an Oedipal antihero. This recasting allowed them to calumniate their opponents in the strongest possible terms through the rhetoric of murder and incest. Silk draws on a wide variety of sources to demonstrate the range of thinking about incest in Indian Buddhist culture, thereby uncovering the strategies and working methods of the ancient polemicists. He argues that Indian Buddhists and Hindus, while occupying the same world for the most part, thought differently about fundamental issues such as incest, and hints at the consequent necessity of a reappraisal of our notions of the shape of the ancient cultural sphere they shared.
Provocative and innovative, Riven by Lust is a paradigmatic analysis of a major theme of world mythology and a signal contribution to the study of the history of incest and comparative sexualities. It will attract readers interested in Buddhism, Indian studies, Asian studies, comparative culture, mythology, psychology, and the history of sexuality.

本书是新疆维吾尔自治区吐鲁番学研究院组织编纂的“吐鲁番学研究丛书”中的一种。著者宫治昭是原日本名古屋大学文学部教授，现为静冈县立美术馆馆长，龙谷大学特任教授，著名的佛教美术考古专家。自1969年调查阿富汗巴米扬大佛与石窟寺院以来，长期从事印度、巴基斯坦和阿富汗和中国新疆、甘肃、陕西和四川等地的佛教遗迹与佛教美术的调查研究。本书以其对吐鲁番吐峪沟石窟的调查研究成果为主，附录了关于印度、犍陀罗及中亚佛教美术相关的论文4篇。从洞窟壁画内容、表现的禅观思想、禅定僧的系谱等多方面，结合经籍、贯通中亚，考证和论述了须摩提女因缘故事画与禅观，是论证缜密、图文并茂的高水平艺术史专著。

本书作者从考古学、历史学、铭文学及艺术史学等多方面，对公元前1世纪到公元3世纪的印度北部进行了全面的综合研究。

《北宋禅宗思想及其渊源》考察了从马祖道一到北宋末圆悟克勤的禅宗思想史。《北宋禅宗思想及其渊源》放弃过去的概括性叙述，而着眼于禅宗思想史的连续性，选择主要演变脉络进行了探讨。《北宋禅宗思想及其渊源》分上下两篇。上篇为《北宋禅宗思想的渊源》，讲述唐代的主流禅思想史。这些思想活动奠定了宋以后禅思想的基础。下篇为《北宋禅宗的思想史》，讲述北宋禅思想的演变过程。上篇把唐代禅思想史分三个阶段进行叙述，第一是马祖道一的思想，第二是对马祖思想的各种反应，第三是雪峰集团的思想。下篇先通过比较唐末禅僧玄沙师备与宋初禅僧荐福承古的思想，来分析宋代禅思想的新课题。这之后的篇章基本上按照宋代禅宗的主流交替，即云门宗、临济宗黄龙派、临济宗杨岐派的顺序进行叙述。但思想课题的实际变化和派别的交替并不完全一致，因此《北宋禅宗思想及其渊源》围绕云门文偃和宋代云门宗(第五章)、无事禅(第六章)、公案禅(第七章)、圆悟克勤和顿悟渐修思想(第八章)四个较为具体的主题，来探讨北宋禅思想的演变。

僧肇是我国佛学史上的一位著名的高僧，在历史上影响不小，并被后人誉之为我国的“解空第一人”。僧肇所处的东晋十六国时代，正是我国佛教的“始盛”时期，其是僧肇服膺鸠摩罗什所弦传的大乘中观佛学，撰写了我国佛学史上的名篇《不真空论》、《物不迁论》、《般若无知论》和《涅槃无名论》等佛学论文，从本体论与解说论两个方面系统而又深刻地阐说了大乘中观佛教哲学思想，并把印度佛学与我国的老庄玄学相结合了起来，不仅使我国佛学思想的发展进入了一个新时期，而且也对整个中国哲学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用。

In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places—events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of karmic retribution, or confirming the efficacy of Buddhist devotional practices. Robert Ford Campany, one of North America’s preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan’s Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 C.E.
In addition to the translation, Campany provides a substantial study of the text and its author in their historical and religious settings. He shows how these lively tales helped integrate Buddhism into Chinese society at the same time that they served as platforms for religious contestation and persuasion. Campany offers a nuanced, clear methodological discussion of how such narratives, being products of social memory, may be read as valuable evidence for the history of religion and culture.
Readers interested in Buddhism; historians of Chinese religions, culture, society, and literature; scholars of comparative religion: All will find Signs from the Unseen Realm a stimulating and rich contribution to scholarship.

这本书是美国汉学家芮沃寿（Arthur F. Wright）关于中国佛教史研究的一部通论性著作。作者以1958年在芝加哥大学举行的演讲稿为基础写成此书，一经出版后，即受到广泛的关注和赞誉，著名学者纷纷发表书评，甚至在此书出版近半个世纪之后依然有新的书评出现。时至今日，这本书仍是美国大学生了解中国佛教的必读之书。本书收录了芮沃寿20世纪50年代后期在芝加哥大学的六篇讲演稿。作者试图展示从佛教进入中国至6世纪，佛教如何适应中国文化，减少与中国本土文化的摩擦与碰撞，为儒释道三教合和打下统一的思想基础，作者还将研究视野进一步延伸至近代中国社会，检讨佛教如何在近代社会继续发挥其影响和作用，兼顾佛教在中国文化中的思想、语言和文化等方面的影响。

本书由6篇论文组成，论文作者都是西方著名的佛教研究者，本书被誉为“西方佛教研究的第一部批评史”，它的出版将为中国的佛教研究提供一种参照，有助于中国的佛教研究发出自己的声音。

新疆是佛教东渐的“桥头堡”，魏晋时期开凿的克孜尔千佛洞代表了当时的艺术成就，气势雄伟森严，外来影响大，民族风味浓。它的壁画有一个显着的特点，就是有菱格图案。在每个菱格中画着不同的佛本生故事、因缘故事、供养故事和千佛故事，皆以单幅的形式表现一个完整的内容。这些菱格还含有佛教意义，莲瓣表示莲花，山为须弥山，树为菩提树，皆是佛家吉祥的象征。
克孜尔千佛洞壁画的人物，用曲铁盘丝描法与凹凸不平的染色法，线的韵律感强，人物脸呈椭圆形，脖子粗糙，胸体健壮，身体修长，手背圆肥，手心丰满而富有弹性，带有幼稚纯朴的美感，与当地少数民族的审美观相吻合。
由于克孜尔千佛洞壁画富有装饰性，色彩绚丽，将有限的穹顶与窟壁开拓成一个大千世界，扩大了绘画艺术表现空间的层次和深度，而被后人誉为西域美术的奇葩。

"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure. This book offers a new perspective on the history of religion in modern and contemporary China by focusing on the profiles of these religious leaders from the early 20th century through the present.
Edited by noted authorities in the field of Chinese religion, Making Saints in Modern China offers biographies of prominent Daoists and Buddhists, as well as of the charismatic leaders of redemptive societies and state managers of religious associations in the People's Republic. The focus of the volume is largely on figures in China proper, although some attention is accorded to those in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other areas of the Chinese diaspora. Each chapter offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of the way in which he or she became a "saint." The biographies illustrate how these leaders deployed and sometimes retooled traditional themes in hagiography and charismatic communication to attract followers and compete in the religious marketplace. Negotiation with often hostile authorities was also an important aspect of religious leadership, and many of the saints' stories reveal unexpected reserves of creativity and determination.
The volume's contributors, from the United States, Canada, France, Italy, China, and Taiwan, provide cutting-edge scholarship. Taken together, these essays make the case that vital religious leadership and practice has existed and continues to exist in China despite the state's commitment to wholesale secularization.