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Han Yu: “Memorial on the Buddha’s Bones”

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Further Reading

Articles

  • Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum. “Esoteric Buddhism and the Famensi Finds.” Archives of Asian Art 47 (1994): 78–85.
  • McMullen, David. “Han Yü: An Alternative Picture.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49, no. 2 (1989): 603–657.

Books

  • Bol, Peter K. “This Culture of Ours”: Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.
  • Confucius. The Analects, trans. D. C. Lau. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.
  • Hartman, Charles. Han Yü and the T'ang Search for Unity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986.
  • Kieschnick, John. The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
  • Peterson, C. A. “Court and Province in Mid- and Late T'ang.” In The Cambridge History of China, vol. 3, ed. Denis Twitchett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Wright, Arthur F. Buddhism in Chinese History. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991.
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Stones inscribed with the writings of Confucius, Temple of Confucius, Beijing (Library of Congress)

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