The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism

<p><i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism</i> combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed and is practiced in this region. These newly-commissioned essays provide fresh scholarly perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, and practices.</p> <ul> <li>Offers a comprehensive and balanced survey of Buddhism within East and Central Asia, from the time of the Buddha through to the present day</li> <li>Provides fresh perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, traditions, doctrines, practices, and institutions – on topics spanning gender roles, tantric rituals, and the spread of Zen into Europe</li> <li>Brings together cutting-edge research by an interdisciplinary and international contributor team, including historians, literature scholars, and historians, as well as those from religious studies</li> <li>Presents a panoramic view of the extraordinary richness and variety of local Buddhist expressions and practices within Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Tibetan, cultures</li> </ul>