• DOI:10.2307/j.ctv10h9dfb
Corpus ID: 169394177

The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture

@inproceedings{Kieschnick2003TheIO,
  title={The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture},
  author={John Kieschnick},
  year={2003}
}

• John Kieschnick
• Published 2003
• Philosophy

From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. At the same time, Buddhism had a profound effect on the material world of the Chinese. This wide-ranging study shows that Buddhism brought with it a vast array of objects big and small--relics treasured as parts of the body of the Buddha, prayer beads, and monastic clothing--as well as new ideas about what objects could do and how they should be treated. Kieschnick argues… Expand

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