Issue 1 Volume 2 March 2016

CONTENTS

Research Articles

Compilation of local chronicles and new directions in research of Chinese religious history

Jianming He        

Slaves (nubi 奴婢) in Daoxuan’s Vinaya writings

Chengzhong Pu        

Authoring virile bodies self cultivation and textual production in early China

Ori Tavor        

K. H. Ting as a ‘modern’ theologian structure and contributions limitations and legacy

Philip L. Wickeri        

Book Reviews

Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis Divinities and Dynastic Mothers by N Harry

Stephanie Balkwill        

Illusory Abiding The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben by Natasha Heller

Mario Poceski        

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature by Mario

Morten Schlütter        

Issue 2 Volume 2 June 2016

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Chinese Buddhism Canons

Chinese Buddhist canon approaches to its compilation

Guangchang Fang        

An analysis of the content and characteristics of the Chinese Buddhist canon

Fuhua Li        

The master disciple relationship between Huisi and Jingwan

Aiming Zhang        

Manuscripts, printed canons, and extra-canonical sources: a case study based on a biography from the Xu Gaoseng Zhuan (Further Biographies of Eminent Monks) by Daoxuan 道宣 (596–667)

Jinhua Chen        

The secret scriptures in both the Qisha Canon and Puning Canon

Jining Li        

The Yongle Northern Canon and its donors

Darui Long        

Features and significance of compiling the Newly Collated and Annotated Catalog of the Buddhist Canon

Darui Long        

The Foguang Buddhist Canon the unique and creative classification of Buddhist works

Yikung

Issue 3 Volume 2 September 2016

CONTENTS

Articles

A wooden manuscript from late Qing Yunnan（救世鴻文）: beyond the print manuscript distinction

T. H. Barrett        

Confucius and Laozi at the altar reconsidering a Tangut manuscript

Imre Galambos        

Study on the two Daoist treatises of ‘Sitting in Oblivion’

Jinhua Jia        

Apocryphal Chinese books in the Buddhist canon at Matsuo Shintō shrine

George A. Keyworth        

Chinese religion(s): a survey of textbooks

Kin Cheung, Adam Valerio, Vishma Kunu and Marcus Bingenheimer        

Book Review

Tea in China A Religious and Cultural History by James A Benn

Megan Bryson

Issue 4 Volume 2 December 2016

Articles

A study of Chinese traditional patriarchal religion

Zhongjian Mou

Jōjin on the spot some remarkable evidence of eleventh century Chinese Buddhism from the San Tendai Godaisan ki

George A. Keyworth

Times of reform Buddhist monastic education in China in the late Ming and modern periods

Guang Kuan

Zibo Zhenke 紫柏真可 (1543-1603) and the late Ming restoration of Yunju temple 雲居寺

Jinhua Chen

Book Review Patrons and patriarchs Chan monks and regional rulers during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms by Benjamin Brose

Geoffrey C. Goble