Stanley Weinstein, late professor of Buddhist studies at Yale University, wrote this academic history of the Buddhist church under the Tang dynasty, tracing the dynasty's recurring tension between Buddhist institutional wealth and the state's official ranking of Taoism first among the empire's three teachings, and treating Emperor Wuzong's Huichang persecution as the clearest instance of that ranking enforced by decree.
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A Cambridge University Press academic monograph by the leading specialist on Tang dynasty Buddhism, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable university press scholarship, used here for the Huichang persecution's scale and its elevation of Taoism, corroborated by Columbia University's translation of Wuzong's own edict. NotesUsed for the persecution's scale, the destruction of over four thousand monasteries and its elevation of Taoism.
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AuthorStanley Weinstein
PublisherCambridge University Press
Source Typeacademic monograph
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