{"product_id":"buddhist-apologetics-in-east-asia-9789004405332","title":"Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia","description":"While the Neo-Confucian critique of Buddhism is fairly well-known, little attention has been given to the Buddhist reactions to this harangue. The fact is, however, that over a dozen apologetic essays have been written by Buddhists in China, Korea, and Japan in response to the Neo-Confucians. \u003ci\u003eBuddhist Apologetics in East Asia\u003c\/i\u003e offers an introduction to this Buddhist literary genre. It centers on full translations of two dominant apologetic works—the \u003ci\u003eHufa lun\u003c\/i\u003e (護法論), written by a Buddhist politician in twelfth-century China, and the \u003ci\u003eYusŏk chirŭi non\u003c\/i\u003e  (儒釋質疑論), authored by an anonymous monk in fifteenth-century Korea. Put together, these two texts demonstrate the wide variety of polemical strategies and the cross-national intertextuality of East Asian Buddhist apologetics.","brand":"Uri Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270249230587,"sku":"9789004405332","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_b7e9c4fd-7e43-4365-b477-a807e46cabb6.jpg?v=1770965442","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/buddhist-apologetics-in-east-asia-9789004405332","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}