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Buddhism
In the Forest of the Blind
The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery.
$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20361-6 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20360-9 March 2022 304 pages 30 illus. Other Lives
Mind and World in Indian Buddhism Sonam Kachru
In his The Twenty Verses, the Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu invites readers to explore experiences in dreams and to inhabit the experiences of nonhuman beings—animals, hungry ghosts, and beings in hell. Sonam Kachru provides a deep engagement with Vasubandhu’s account of mind in a global philosophical perspective.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20001-1 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-20000-4 2021 320 pages
A Partial Enlightenment
What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection Avram Alpert
Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20003-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20002-8 2021 256 pages Lineages of the Literary
Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China Nicole Willock
In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Nicole Willock reveals how they negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19707-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19706-9 2021 320 pages 25 illus.
A Buddhist Sensibility
Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery Dominique Townsend
Founded in 1676, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Dominique Townsend investigates the ritual, artistic, and cultural practices inculcated at Mindröling to demonstrate how early modern Tibetans integrated Buddhist and worldly activities through training in aesthetics.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19487-7 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19486-0 2021 272 pages
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Huayan University Network
The Teaching and Practice of Avatamsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Erik J. Hammerstrom
Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced during a period of profound political and social change. He traces the influence of Huayan University, the first Buddhist monastic school founded after the fall of the imperial system in China.
$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19430-3 2020 288 pages
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
The Renewal of Buddhism in China
Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis Chün-fang Yü Foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson
First published in 1981, Chün-fang Yü’s The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. This fortieth anniversary edition features an updated introduction by the author speaking to the ongoing relevance of this classic work.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19853-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19852-3 2020 360 pages 10 illus.
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
Wisdom as a Way of Life
Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined Steven Collins
Edited by Justin McDaniel Preface by Dan Arnold Afterword by Charles Hallisey
This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19721-2 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19720-5 2020 304 pages
Thriving in Crisis
Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522–1620 Dewei Zhang
Thriving in Crisis is a systematic study of the late Ming Buddhist renewal with a focus on the religious and political factors that enabled it. Dewei Zhang explores the history of the boom in enthusiasm for Buddhism in the Jiajing-Wanli era (1522–1620), tracing a pattern of advances and retrenchment at different social levels in varied regions.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19700-7 2020 368 pages 10 illus.
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
Becoming Guanyin
Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China Yuhang Li
Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19012-1 2020 312 pages
PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS
Steven Heine
The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen), (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. Steven Heine provides a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18229-4 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-18228-7 2020 312 pages 10 illus.
COLUMBIA READINGS OF BUDDHIST LITERATURE
Readings of Śāntideva’ s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
Edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth
Śāntideva’s eighth-century Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra) is one of the crucial texts of the Buddhist ethical and philosophical tradition. This book serves as a companion to the Indian Buddhist classic, illuminating the Guide’s many philosophical, literary, ritual, and ethical dimensions.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19267-5 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19266-8 2019 320 pages
COLUMBIA READINGS OF BUDDHIST LITERATURE
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition Geoffrey C. Goble
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct Buddhist school in the eighth century. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of the tradition’s emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its institutionalization, with a focus on Amoghavajra (704–774).
$70.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19408-2 2019 336 pages
THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
The Original Meaning of the Yijing
Commentary on the Scripture of Change Zhu Xi
Edited and translated by Joseph A. Adler
One of the most influential commentaries on the Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, for the past thousand years has been that of Zhu Xi (1130–1200). Joseph A. Adler’s translation of the Yijing includes for the first time in any Western language Zhu Xi’s commentary in full.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19124-1 2019 400 pages 24 illus.
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood
A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire Matthew W. King
WINNER, CESS BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY AND THE HUMANITIES, CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY
AAR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION: TEXTUAL STUDIES Matthew W. King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times. He reveals an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19106-7 2019 304 pages Spreading Buddha’ s Word in East Asia
The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon Edited by Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia
A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation to the development of East Asian Buddhist culture.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17161-8 2020 432 pages 30 illus.
