The Development of Buddhist Thought in T'Ang China

FAIN: FA-10784-74

Stanley Weinstein
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

To study the development of Buddhist thought in China during the Sui and T'ang dynasties, i.e. during the years 581-907. During this time the major religious and philosophical schools of East Asian Buddhism took shape. The schools that emerged then constitute the foundation on which all subsequent Buddhist thought in China and Japan rests. The most serious gap in the field of Chinese Buddhism (as well as Japanese) is the lack in any Western language of a systematic account of the religious and philosophical schools. This study is to fill in the gap.