Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (

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As its teachings spread from the Indian subcontinent in all directions across Asia, Buddhism influenced every culture it touched—from Afghanistan to Korea, fr

Representing work by some of the leading scholars in the field, the chapters of this handbook survey the transformation and innovation of religious traditions a