This volume explores the dissemination of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618907) in the context of the dispersal of the state bureaucracy throughout the empire and the changing centreperiphery dynamics.
The traditions development in China during the Tang Dynasty has traditionally been associated with northern China, particularly the capital city of Changan, where Daoxuan (596667), the de facto founder of the vinaya school in China, resided.
This book explores the dissemination of Daoxuans followers and the subsequent growth of interrelated regional vinaya movements across the Tang regional landscape.
Anna Sokolova, Ph.D. (2021), Ghent University, is a postdoctoral fellow at that university. Her work has appeared in Toung Pao, Buddhist Studies Review, Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, and other venues.
