Robert H. Sharf is professor in the Department of
East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of
California, Berkeley.
An important, provocative, well-researched and eminently readable contribution to our understanding of Chinese Buddhism. Any further discussion of Buddhism's 'sinicization' should now take this book as its starting point, for Sharf has launched a powerful critique of the heretofore dominant way in which such discussions have been framed. - Journal of Religion
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