Buddhism in China reading list

Baker, Janet, The Flowering of a Foreign Faith: New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art, Marg Publication, New Delhi, 1998

Berger, Patricia, Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2003,
0-8248-2563-2

Brinker, Helmut, Zen in the Art of Painting, Penguin, London, 1988

Brinker, Helmut and Kanazawa, Hiroshi (Trans. Andreas Leisinger), Zen: Master of Meditation in Images and Writing, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1996

Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1993

Ch'en, Kenneth, Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey, Princeton University Press, 1972

Daijo Tokiwa and Tadashi Sekino, Buddhist Monuments in China, Bukkyo-Shiseki Kenkyu-Kwai, Tokyo, 1926

Dietrich Seckel, The Art of Buddhism, Methuen, London, 1964

Falco-Howard, Angela, Imagery of the Cosmological Buddha, Brill, Leiden, 1986

Falco-Howard, Angela, Li Song, Wu Hung and Yang Hong, Chinese Sculpture, Yale University Press, 2006

Fisher, Robert E, Buddhist Art and Architecture, Thames and Hudson, 1993

Fraser, Sarah E, Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960, Stanford University Press, California, 2004

Gernet, Jacques, Buddhism in Chinese Society. An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries, Columbia University Press, New York, 1995

Getty, Alice, The Gods of Northern Buddhism, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo, 1974

Gregory, Peter N. and Getz, Jr., Daniel A. (eds.), Buddhism in the Sung, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2002, 0-8248-2681-7

Kieschnick, John, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2003, 0-691-09675-9

Klimberg, Salter D, The Silk route and the Diamond Path, Los Angeles, UCLA Art Council, 1982

Lerner, Martin, 'A Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Ivory', article in the Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. LV, No.9, Nov. 1968, pp. 294-302, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, 1968

Meher McArthur, Reading Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Guide to Buddhist Signs and Symbols, Thames & Hudson, London, 2002, 0-500-51089-X

Oort, H.A. van, The Iconography of Chinese Buddhism in Traditional China, Brill, Leiden, 1986

Rhie, Marilyn, Martin, Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Brill, Leiden, 1999

Sickman, Laurence and Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, Penguin, London, 1978

Siren, Oswald, Chinese Sculpture form the Fifth to Fourteenth Centuries (Four volumes), London, 1925

Snellgrove, David (ed), The Image of the Buddha, UNESCO, 1978, 0906026008

Soper, Alexander Coburn , Literary Evidence for Early Buddhist Art in China, Artibus Asiae Publishers, Switzerland, 1959

Steinhardt, N (ed), Chinese Architecture, Yale University Press, 2002

Sullivan Michael, The Cave Temples of Maichishan, Faber and Faber, London, 1969

Tansen Sen, Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400, Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2003, 0-8248-2593-4

Wang, Euguene. Y, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Art in Medieval China, University of Washington Press, Washington, 2005

Weidner, Marsha ed., Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas & University of Hawaii Press, 1994

Whitfield and Farrer, Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Road, Braziller, New York, 1990

Whitfield, R, Dunhuang: Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road, Textile and Art publications, London, 1995

Whitfield, R, The art of Central Asia: The Stein Collection in the British Museum, Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1983

Whitfield, R et al, Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road, Getty, Los Angeles, 2000

Wu, Hung, Buddhist Elements in Early Chinese Art (2nd and 3rd centuries A.D.), in Artibus Asiae vol. 47, no.3/4 (1986), p. 263-352, Artibus Asiae Publishers, Switzerland

Yetts, Percival. W, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection; Catalogue of the Chinese and Corean Bronzes, Sculpture, Jades, Jewellery, and Miscellaneous Objects/ Volume III Buddhist sculpture, E. Benn, London, 1929

Zürcher, E, The Buddhist conquest of China: The Spread and Adaption of Buddhism in Early Medieval China (3rd Edition), Brill, Leiden, 2007

Zwalf, W (ed), Buddhism - Art and Faith, British Museum, London, 1985