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Gyōnen’s Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries is the first English translation of this work and a new assessment of it. Gyōnen (1240-1321) has been recognized for establishing a methodology for the study of Buddhism that would come to dominate Japan. The three countries Gyōnen considers are India, China and Japan. Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun describe Gyōnen’s innovative doctrinal classification system (panjiao) for the first time and compare it to other panjiao systems. They argue that Gyōnen’s arrangement and what he chose to exclude served political purposes in the Kamakura period, and thus engage current scholarship on the construction of Japanese Buddhism.
Price: $151.00
Pages: 182
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Numen Book Series
Publication Date:
07 June 2018
ISBN: 9789004370388
Format: Hardcover
"Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun have translated for the first time into English a crucial Japanese Buddhist work that had become greatly influential in dictating the approach with which Buddhist texts were interpreted and understood in Kamakura Japan. (...) The book is an outstanding addition to the existing English-language literature of Japanese Buddhism which should be of great interest to all students of East Asian religions."
- Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, in: Religious Studies Review 47.1 (2021).
- Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, in: Religious Studies Review 47.1 (2021).
Ronald S. Green, Ph.D. (2003), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Associate Professor of Religions at Coastal Carolina University. He has published monographs, translations, and articles on Japanese Buddhism and Buddhism in popular culture, including Buddhism Goes to the Movies (Routledge, 2014).
Chanju Mun, Ph.D. (2002), University of Wisconsin-Madison, taught at University of the West, University of Hawaii, and Coastal Carolina University. His books are widely published and include The History of Doctrinal Classification in Chinese Buddhism (University Press of America, 2006).
Chanju Mun, Ph.D. (2002), University of Wisconsin-Madison, taught at University of the West, University of Hawaii, and Coastal Carolina University. His books are widely published and include The History of Doctrinal Classification in Chinese Buddhism (University Press of America, 2006).