Böcker av Erik J. (Pacific Lutheran University) Hammerstrom

Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced during a period of profound political and social change. He traces the influence of Huayan University, the first Buddhist monastic school founded after the fall of the imperial system in China.

Maps Buddhists' efforts to rethink their traditions through science in the initial decades of the twentieth century.