Description
Guide to Chinese Buddhism
Author: Zheng Lixin
Order No. 3142
ISBN-13: 9787119033341
ISBN-10: 7119033344
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
Pub Year: 2004
Pages: 216
Language: English and Chinese
Size: 5 x 8.5
Price: $17.95
Buddhism is a very popular religion that originated in China. This book outlines the religion’s history, and gives background of the religion’s three branches of Buddhism called the Han, Tibetian and Pali. There is also information on Buddhist schools, temples, major grottoes, the four sacred mountains in Buddhism, and the influence of Buddhism in other Asian countries including Korea, Japan and India. Several appendices cover topics such as Buddhist terms, biographies of major Han Buddhist monks, and a short chronology of the religion’s history. With color photos.