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elective monographs
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The aim of the lecture is to introduce students to the origins, developmental history and major issues of the philosophy and doctrine of the Buddhist philosophy and doctrine in China

The aim of the lecture is to introduce students to the origins, development and major issues of Buddhist philosophy and doctrine in China. The lecture covers basic information about Buddhism in India, its paths to China, the first contacts of the Chinese with Buddhist doctrine, as well as a discussion of the first texts translated into Chinese and the history of the most important schools, the influence of native beliefs and philosophy on the development of Buddhism in China.

In addition to historical issues, contemporary issues such as the current situation of also Tibetan Buddhism in mainland China and Taiwan will be addressed.

- Eric Zürcher, The Buddhist conquest of China : the spread and adaptation of Buddhism in early medieval China, Brill 2007.

- Ch'en Kenneth, Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey. Princeton University Press. Princeton 1964.

- Jan Nattier, A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han 東漢 and Three Kingdoms 三國 Periods, Tokyo: International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica X).

- Zenryu Tsukamoto, History of Early Chinese Buddhism: From Its Introduction to the Death of Hui-Yuan.

- Seishi Karashima, A Glossary of Dharmarakṣa’s Translation of the Lotus Sutra 正法華經詞典: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica I), Tokyo 1998.

- Seishi Karashima, A Glossary of Kumārajīva’s Translation of the Lotus Sutra 妙法蓮華經詞典:The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica IV), Tokyo 2001.

- Seishi Karashima, A Glossary of Lokakṣema’s Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā 道行般若經詞典: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XI), Tokyo 2010.

- Seishi Karashima, “Vernacularisms and Transcriptions in Early Chinese Buddhist Scriptures”, in: Vernacularisms in Medieval Chinese Texts by Erick Zürcher, Seishi Karashima, and Huanming Qin, Sino-Platonic Papers, Number 71, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 1996.

- Stefano Zacchetti, In Praise of the Light: A Critical Synoptic Edition with an Annotated Translation of Chapters 1-3 of Dharmaraksa’s Guang zan jing, Being the Earliest Chinese Translation of the Larger Prajñaparamita., TOKYO, IRIAB, Soka University, Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica VIII, 2005.

Joshua Esler, Tibetan Buddhism and Han Chinese: Superscribing New Meaning on the Tibetan Tradition in Modern Greater China, 2013

Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China, 2005

Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist Meditation. Cultural Histories, ed. Halvor Eifring, 2014

Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia, ed. Charles D. Orzech (General Editor), Henrik H. SØrensen (Associate Editor), Richard K. Payne (Associate Editor), 2011

Arthur Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History, 1959

Paul Copp, The Body incantatory : spells and the ritual imagination in medieval Chinese Buddhism, 2014

Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, ed, Yael Bentor Meir Shahar

Paul Williams, Buddyzm Mahajana, 2000

Buddhist Spirituality..., ed. Takeuchi Yoshinori, 1993

Rupert Gethin, Podstawy Buddyzmu, 2010

John Powers, Wprowadzenie do buddyzmu tybetańskiego, 1999

Dan Smyer Yu, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China..., 2012

John R. McRae, Seeing Through Zen..., 2003

Critical terms for the Study of Buddhism, ed. Donald S. Lopez

Robert Sharf, Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism...., 2001

John McRae, The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism, 1986

Zapiski z krajów buddyjskich, tłum G. Zduń, M. Kunstler, 2015

Buddhism Between Tibet &China, ed. Matthew Kapstein, 2009

Religions of China in Practice, ed. Donald S Lopez, 1996

Charles Brewer Jones, Buddhism in Taiwan : Religion and the State, 1660-

1990, 1999

Daniel Overmyer, Folk Buddhist Religion..., 1976

Mario Poceski, Chinese Religions, 2009

Modern Chinese Religion II, 1850–2015, ed.Vincent Goossaert, Jan Kiely, and John Lagerwey, 2014

K_W01 Has in-depth detailed knowledge (including terminology, theory and methodology) of literary studies or linguistics or cultural and religious studies, philosophy or history; K_W02 Has extended knowledge of selected problems of Oriental/African cultures (in culture and literature or language or philosophy and religion or history and socio-political issues) in a comparative perspective;

K_W03 Has extended knowledge of selected problems of Chinese culture (in the field of culture and literature or language or philosophy and religion or history and socio-political issues) of China; K_W05 Has detailed knowledge of the state of research in the field of selected Chinese issues and research centres in

research centres in Poland and abroad; K_U06 Is able to use concepts from the field of philosophy and religion of China in order to analyse

and interpret religious phenomena, ethical motives and human behaviour, as well as differences between cultures; K_U07 Is able to detect relations between the formation of philosophical and religious ideas of China and social, cultural and economic processes; K_K05;

K_K06 Is aware of the dissimilarity arising from cultural, religious and philosophical diversity and its impact on the formation of social and political attitudes and economic processes; K_K08 Understands and appreciates the value of one's own tradition and cultural legacy and that of China and Taiwan; K_K09 Recognises the need to enrich one's tradition with the positive philosophical, social and cultural values of China and Taiwan, and treats cultural synergy as an added value; K_K11 Is willing to be active in sharing and promoting the cultural legacy and the most important creations of contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese culture.

Class attendance. Written/oral assessment after each semester

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