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The Study of Chinese Buddhism in the U.S. Lewis Lancaster Taiwan April, 2015

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Sectarian/Schools Pure Land Chan

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John McCrea Chan Oxhead School Loose fellowship Mostly known through Dunhuang manuscripts Deceased

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Robert Sharf Pure Land is a bibliographical category rather than an institution Reinterpreting study of Chinese Buddhism University of California, Berkeley

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Charles Orzech Cosmology and Tantra in political power. Denial of the position that Tantra is the last decaying phase of Indian Buddhism Bristol University, U.K.

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A. Welter Chan and politics University of Arizona

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Monasteries Vinaya

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Gareth Fisher Anthropologist studying the new monastic construction projects in the PRC Syracuse University

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Mazio Poceski Hongzhou School Monastic codes in Medieval China University of Florida

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Susan Naquin Buddhist temples of Beijing during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Princeton University

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Dynasties

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Peter Gregory Sung was more the Golden Age of Buddhism than the Tang Smith College

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Marsha Weidner Buddhist decline after the Tang is incorrect. Interdisciplinary culture based studies offer a different picture. University of Kansas

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Chi-chiang Huang Sung dynasty Buddhist history and the relationship to the royal court Hobart-Smith Colleges

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Morton Schlutter Platform Sutra Sung dynasty politics and Buddhism University of Iowa

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Darui Long Northern Ming Edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon University of the West

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Canon/Textual Catalogues

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Jiang Wu When did the first set of the Chinese Buddhist canon arrive in Europe? University of Arizona

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Tanya Storch Study of catalogs and Chinese bibliographical sources How accurate are the ancient catalogs? Buddhist universities in the U.S. University of the Pacific

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Jan Nattier Early translations of Chinese texts University of Indiana (retired)

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Robert Buswell/ Donald Lopez Reference work Chinese Buddhist texts and apocrypha UCLA/University of Michigan

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Contemporary PRC Taiwan

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20 th century Reform

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Holmes Welch If Taixu had succeeded would Buddhism have been Buddhism? Deceased

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Charles Jones Buddhism in Taiwan 1660-1990 Catholic University of America

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Don Pittman Taixus reforms of Buddhism after the Taiping Rebellion. Phillips Theological Seminary

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Daoism

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Josh Capitanio Buddhist Taoist interface University of the West

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Meditation

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Livia Kohn Comparison of Chan and Daoist practices of meditation Boston University

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Eric Greene Chinese meditation from 400-600 C.E. was related to the rituals of repentance. University of California, Berkeley

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Art

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Stan Abe Buddhism and Modern Aestheticism Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Duke University

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T Griffith Foulk Critical of Art History that divorces art from original cultural contexts Maintains too much reliance on Sutras and on the physical appearance of images Sarah Lawrence College

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Daniel Stevenson Meaning of an image is not fixed but open to interpretation Buddhist rituals of the Tiantai and Pure Land. University of Kansas

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Body Cremation Immolation

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Raoul Birnbaum Healing Buddha and art associated with him Contemporary Buddhism in PRC University of California, Santa Cruz

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James A. Benn Study of self- immolation the role of the body in Chinese Buddhist rituals and events Mc Master University

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Marcus Bingenheimer Formerly with CBETA Study of the life of Yinshun Relics of the Whole Body show that Buddhism introduced the idea of mummification to China Temple University

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John Kieschnick Material Culture Blood Writing of Buddhist texts Stanford University

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Ritual

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Stephen Teiser Buddhism and Chinese practices regarding reincarnation, hells, Ghost Festival Princeton University

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Buddhist Theology

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William Chu Buddhist theology and meditation University of the West

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Roger Jackson/John Makransky Buddhist Theology

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Robert Gimello Buddhist thought in China, including Tantra Catholic theological perspectives on Buddhism Notre Dame University

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Gender

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Marian Levering Gender in the Chan tradition Women in Chinese Buddhism University of Tennessee