Henrik H Sørensen

Biographic Data

ID5184221
NAMEHenrik H Sørensen
GIVEN NAMESHenrik H
FAMILY NAMESørensen
SIGNATURESØRENSEN H H
AFFILIATIONSState University of New York
ORCID0000-0002-0637-3495
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR61
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • On the Concept of Effortlessness and Non-Activity in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Practice, with Focus on Chan During the Tang

    Open AccessHenrik H SørensenARTICLEEntangled Religions2026

    This article aims at approaching the topic of non-doing (Chin. wuwei 無為), and the related idea of effortlessness (Chin. wu gongyong 無功用), from the perspective of the Chan Buddhist tradition (禪宗) in late medieval China. This highly practice-oriented form of Chinese Buddhism developed well-defined soteriological strategies for their practitioners to attain the absolute, variously defined as the nirvāṇic state, the buddha-nature (Chin. wuxing 佛性), b…

  • Daianji

    Henrik H Sørensen, Ellen Van GoethemCHAPTER2024

  • Tōshōdaiji

    Henrik H Sørensen, Ellen Van GoethemCHAPTER2024

  • Shin’yakushiji

    Henrik H Sørensen, Ellen Van GoethemCHAPTER2024

  • Kōryūji

    Henrik H Sørensen, Matthew StavrosCHAPTER2024

  • China

    Jonathan M Bloom, Jerome Silbergeld et al.CHAPTER2023

  • China

    Ann Paludan, Stephen B Little et al.CHAPTER2023

  • China

    James F Cahill, James Cahill et al.CHAPTER2023

  • China

    Jonathan M Bloom, Petra Klose et al.CHAPTER2023

  • Buddhism in Central Asia III

    Open AccessLewis Doney, Carmen Meinert et al.BOOKBuddhism in Central Asia III2023Cited by: 2

  • "BuddhistRoadPaper 5.6 "Light on ‘Art in the Dark’

    Open AccessHenrik H SørensenBOOK2022

    This piece has partly been written in response to a series of claims put forward by Robert Sharf almost a decade ago in his article Art in the Dark in which he argues that the Buddhist caves in Dunhuang (and elsewhere in China and Central Asia) were not for worship, but were created as a sort of ancestral memorials, or decorated mausoleums meant to be left in the dark. Given that the implications of such reading of Buddhist cave-art in the Siniti…

  • Buddhism in Central Asia II

    Open AccessYukiyo Kasai, Henrik H SørensenBOOKBuddhism in Central Asia II2021Cited by: 3

    The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghu…

  • Offerings and the Production of Buddhist Scriptures in Dunhuang during the Tenth Century

    Open AccessHenrik H SørensenARTICLEHualin International Journal of…2020

    This study explores the production of Buddhist scriptures in Dunhuang during the late medieval period, with a focus on the period when Hexi was ruled by the Guiyijun 歸義軍 regime from 848 to c. 1038 CE.The study is divided into five parts which deal with the historical background and the nature of the sources, typologies of scriptural production as an integral part of Buddhist offerings, official donations of Buddhist scriptures in Dunhuang, privat…

  • Buddhism in Central Asia I

    Open AccessCarmen Meinert, Henrik H Sørensen et al.BOOKBuddhism in Central Asia I2019Cited by: 3

    Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, 6-14th Centuries deals with the various strategies of legitimation and the establishment of sacred space and pilgrimage among both trans-regional (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and local (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Kitan) Buddhist traditions. Readership: All interested in dynamics of inter-cultural encounter and Buddhist transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central As…

  • A Look at Stephen Eskildsen

    Open AccessHenrik H SørensenARTICLEEntangled Religions2016

    This piece is in the form of a review article of Stephen Eskildsen’s recent study Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity, which deals with the history of contemplative traditions in Daoism including a detailed survey of their various direct and indirect links with Buddhism.While this essay presents a critical evaluation of this author’s work and its findings, it also seeks to place it within the wider research-frame of Daoist studies and…

  • Seal-Bearing Bodhisattvas in the Sculptural Art of Sichuan and the Significance of Seals within the Chinese Esoteric Buddhist Tradition

    Tom Suchan, Henrik H SørensenARTICLEArtibus Asiae2013

    TOM SUCHAN, HENRIK H. SØRENSEN, SEAL-BEARING BODHISATTVAS IN THE SCULPTURAL ART OF SICHUAN AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEALS WITHIN THE CHINESE ESOTERIC BUDDHIST TRADITION, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 73, No. 2 (2013), pp. 403-443

  • Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

    Charles D Orzech, Charles Orzech et al.BOOKEsoteric Buddhism and the tantras…2011

    In all likelihood, it was the form of Buddhism labeled “Esoteric Buddhism” that had the greatest geographical spread of any form of Buddhism. It left its imprint not only on its native India, but far beyond, on Southeast Asia, Central Asia, including Tibet and Mongolia, as well as the East Asian countries China, Korea and Japan. Not only has Esoteric Buddhism contributed substantially to the development of Buddhism in many cultures, but it also f…

  • Trends in the Study of Korean Buddhism in Europe 1968-2006

    Open AccessHenrik H Sørensen, Henrik H Sorensen Henrik H SorensenARTICLEKorea Journal2007Cited by: 1

  • Li Di

    Henrik H Sørensen, Yun-chen LuCHAPTER2003

  • Sin Yun-bok

    Henrik H Sørensen, Jiyeon KimCHAPTER2003

  • Korea

    Henrik H Sørensen, Sŏng-mi YiCHAPTER2003

  • Stupa

    E Errington, Howard A Wilson et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Yi Am (ii)

    Henrik H Sørensen, Jiyeon KimCHAPTER2003

  • Jeongjo

    Henrik H Sørensen, Jiyeon Kim et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Sarcophagus

    David Martin Jones, Madeline McLeod et al.CHAPTER2003