(in Polish) Wykład monograficzny (Z) 3600-7-SI5-WM1

The aim of the lecture is to introduce students to the origins, development and major issues of Buddhist philosophy and doctrine in China. The lecture covers basic information about Buddhism in India, its paths to China, the first contacts of the Chinese with Buddhist doctrine, as well as a discussion of the first texts translated into Chinese and the history of the most important schools, the influence of native beliefs and philosophy on the development of Buddhism in China.
In addition to historical issues, contemporary issues such as the current situation of also Tibetan Buddhism in mainland China and Taiwan will be addressed.

he purpose of the lecture entitled: ‘Buddhism in China: origins, doctrine, modernity’.
The lecture is devoted to a comprehensive overview of the history of Buddhism in China - from its Indian origins, its introduction in the first centuries AD, through the development of local schools and doctrines, to its place in contemporary religious life in China and Taiwan. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic concepts, key currents and texts of Chinese Buddhism, as well as to the transformations of this tradition in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Classes include:
presentation of sources and canonical texts (mainly in translation, with selected original passages for advanced students),
analysis of the process of Sinification of Buddhism and the formation of indigenous schools (e.g. Tiantai, Huayan, Chan),
a study of selected texts of Mahājāna Buddhism, including translations of the Dharmarakṣy and Kumārajīva and their reception in China,
an overview of the situation of Buddhism in the twentieth century (from the Republic period, through the Cultural Revolution, to the so-called religious revival since the 1980s),
a discussion of the role of Buddhism in Taiwanese politics and society,
analysing the phenomenon of the growing popularity of Tibetan Buddhism among the Han in the early 21st century.

In the course, special emphasis will be placed on reading and interpreting textual sources - both classical sutras and commentaries and contemporary texts.

- Eric Zürcher, The Buddhist conquest of China : the spread and adaptation of Buddhism in early medieval China, Brill 2007.
- Ch'en Kenneth, Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey. Princeton University Press. Princeton 1964.
- Jan Nattier, A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han 東漢 and Three Kingdoms 三國 Periods, Tokyo: International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica X).
- Zenryu Tsukamoto, History of Early Chinese Buddhism: From Its Introduction to the Death of Hui-Yuan.
- Seishi Karashima, A Glossary of Dharmarakṣa’s Translation of the Lotus Sutra 正法華經詞典: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica I), Tokyo 1998.
- Seishi Karashima, A Glossary of Kumārajīva’s Translation of the Lotus Sutra 妙法蓮華經詞典:The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica IV), Tokyo 2001.
- Seishi Karashima, A Glossary of Lokakṣema’s Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā 道行般若經詞典: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XI), Tokyo 2010.
- Seishi Karashima, “Vernacularisms and Transcriptions in Early Chinese Buddhist Scriptures”, in: Vernacularisms in Medieval Chinese Texts by Erick Zürcher, Seishi Karashima, and Huanming Qin, Sino-Platonic Papers, Number 71, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 1996.
- Stefano Zacchetti, In Praise of the Light: A Critical Synoptic Edition with an Annotated Translation of Chapters 1-3 of Dharmaraksa’s Guang zan jing, Being the Earliest Chinese Translation of the Larger Prajñaparamita., TOKYO, IRIAB, Soka University, Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica VIII, 2005.
Joshua Esler, Tibetan Buddhism and Han Chinese: Superscribing New Meaning on the Tibetan Tradition in Modern Greater China, 2013

Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China, 2005

Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist Meditation. Cultural Histories, ed. Halvor Eifring, 2014

Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia, ed. Charles D. Orzech (General Editor), Henrik H. SØrensen (Associate Editor), Richard K. Payne (Associate Editor), 2011

Arthur Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History, 1959

Paul Copp, The Body incantatory : spells and the ritual imagination in medieval Chinese Buddhism, 2014

Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, ed, Yael Bentor Meir Shahar

Paul Williams, Buddyzm Mahajana, 2000

Buddhist Spirituality..., ed. Takeuchi Yoshinori, 1993

Rupert Gethin, Podstawy Buddyzmu, 2010

John Powers, Wprowadzenie do buddyzmu tybetańskiego, 1999

Dan Smyer Yu, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China..., 2012

John R. McRae, Seeing Through Zen..., 2003

Critical terms for the Study of Buddhism, ed. Donald S. Lopez

Robert Sharf, Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism...., 2001

John McRae, The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism, 1986

Zapiski z krajów buddyjskich, tłum G. Zduń, M. Kunstler, 2015

Buddhism Between Tibet &China, ed. Matthew Kapstein, 2009

Religions of China in Practice, ed. Donald S Lopez, 1996

Charles Brewer Jones, Buddhism in Taiwan : Religion and the State, 1660-
1990, 1999

Daniel Overmyer, Folk Buddhist Religion..., 1976

Mario Poceski, Chinese Religions, 2009

Modern Chinese Religion II, 1850–2015, ed.Vincent Goossaert, Jan Kiely, and John Lagerwey, 2014

Bentor, Yael, and Meir Shahar, eds. Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism. [Publisher and year needed].

Brewer Jones, Charles. Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the State, 1660–1990. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1999.

Ch’en, Kenneth. Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Copp, Paul. The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism. Edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Eifring, Halvor, ed. Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist Meditation: Cultural Histories. Oslo: Hermes Academic Publishing, 2014.

Esler, Joshua. Tibetan Buddhism and Han Chinese: Superscribing New Meaning on the Tibetan Tradition in Modern Greater China. 2013. [Thesis/dissertation—university and advisor details may be useful].

Gethin, Rupert. Podstawy Buddyzmu. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Homini, 2010.

Goossaert, Vincent, Jan Kiely, and John Lagerwey, eds. Modern Chinese Religion II, 1850–2015. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Greene, Eric M. The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, [publication year needed].

Kapstein, Matthew, ed. Buddhism Between Tibet and China. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2009.

Karashima, Seishi.
— A Glossary of Dharmarakṣa’s Translation of the Lotus Sutra (正法華經詞典). Tokyo: IRIAB, Soka University, 1998.
— A Glossary of Kumārajīva’s Translation of the Lotus Sutra (妙法蓮華經詞典). Tokyo: IRIAB, Soka University, 2001.
— A Glossary of Lokakṣema’s Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (道行般若經詞典). Tokyo: IRIAB, Soka University, 2010.
— “Vernacularisms and Transcriptions in Early Chinese Buddhist Scriptures.” In Vernacularisms in Medieval Chinese Texts, by Erik Zürcher, Seishi Karashima, and Huanming Qin. Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 71 (1996). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Liu, Jiahe, and Dongfang Shao. “Early Buddhism and Taoism in China (A.D. 65–420).” Buddhist-Christian Studies 12 (1992): 35–41. University of Hawai‘i Press.

Lopez, Donald S., Jr., ed.
— Religions of China in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

McRae, John R.
— Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
— The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch’an Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1986.

Nattier, Jan. A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms Periods. Tokyo: IRIAB, Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica X), 2008.

Orzech, Charles D., Henrik H. Sørensen, and Richard K. Payne, eds. Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Overmyer, Daniel L. Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Ozkan, Cuma. “A Comparative Analysis: Buddhist Madhyamaka and Daoist Chongxuan (Twofold Mystery) in the Early Tang (618–720).” PhD diss., University of Iowa, [year needed].

Poceski, Mario. Chinese Religions. London: Routledge, 2009.

Powers, John. Wprowadzenie do buddyzmu tybetańskiego. Warszawa: Aletheia, 1999.

Sharf, Robert H. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2001.

Smyer Yu, Dan. The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment. London: Routledge, 2012.

Takeuchi, Yoshinori, ed. Buddhist Spirituality: Later China, Korea, Japan, and the Modern World. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1993.

Tsukamoto, Zenryu. A History of Early Chinese Buddhism: From Its Introduction to the Death of Hui-yuan. Trans. Leon Hurvitz. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985.

Tuttle, Gray. Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Williams, Paul. Buddyzm Mahajana. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo A, 2000.

Wright, Arthur F. Buddhism in Chinese History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.

Yü, Chün-fang. Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press,

Zapiski z krajów buddyjskich. Trans. Genowefa Zduń and M. Kunstler. Warszawa: Dialog, 2015.

Zürcher, Erik.
— The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China. 3rd ed. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
— “Buddhist Influence on Early Taoism: A Survey of Scriptural Evidence.” T’oung Pao 66, no. 1–3 (1980): 84–147.

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