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Podcast: New Books in Buddhist Studies
Episode: Stuart Young, âConceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in Chinaâ (U of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Description: In Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China (University of Hawaiâi Press, 2015), Stuart Young examines Chinese hagiographic representations of three Indian Buddhist patriarchsâAsvaghosa (Maming), Nagarjuna (Longshu), and Aryadeva (Sheng tipo)âfrom the early fifth to late tenth centuries, and explores the role that these representations played in the development of Chinese Buddhismâs self-awareness of its own position within Buddhist history and its growing confidence that Buddhism could flourish in China despite the distance between the middle kingdom and the land of the Buddha. On the one hand, this project traces these three legendary figures as they are port...