John Kieschnick

Datos Biográficos

ID577437
NOMBREJohn Kieschnick
NOMBRESJohn
APELLIDOKieschnick
FIRMAKIESCHNICK J
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bristol
ORCID0009-0004-8440-7496
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAS13
TOTAL COMO AUTOR15
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1992
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • MSG, Vegan Soap, Meatless Restaurants and Buddhism in the Emergence of Modern Chinese Vegetarianism

    Open AccessJohn KieschnickARTICLEJournal of Chinese History2026

    This paper explores how traditional Chinese vegetarian concerns were adapted to exploit new possibilities in the early twentieth century. Specifically, I examine attempts to promote the vegetarian diet through monosodium glutamate, ventures to manufacture vegan soap, and the emergence of a vibrant culture of urban vegetarian restaurants, all of which were actively supported by the socially conservative monk Yinguang 印光 (1862–1940)

  • Return to the Forest of Buddhist Historiography

    Open AccessJohn KieschnickARTICLEReligious Studies Review2023

  • Buddhist Historiography in China

    John KieschnickBOOKBuddhist Historiography in China2022

    John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens. Exploring a series of themes in mainstream Buddhist historiographical works from the fifth to the twentieth century, he looks for what they tell us about their compilers’ understanding of history.

  • India in the Chinese Imagination

    John Kieschnick, Meir ShaharBOOKIndia in the Chinese Imagination2013

  • Material Culture

    John KieschnickCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Religion…2009

    Attention to material culture reveals generally shared responses across cultures to size, light, and representations of the human form. Even without specific cultural knowledge, monumental sculpture tends to provoke a sense of awe and small dark spaces a sense of foreboding and mystery. For this reason, whether for small-scale studies of individual practices or events or for comparative religion on a grander scale, attention to material culture h…

  • Zen Classics

    John KieschnickARTICLEBuddhist Studies Review2007

    Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism, eds Steven Heine & Dale S. Wright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), viii + 283 pp, £14.99, ISBN 0-19-517525-5

  • Donors of Longmen

    John KieschnickARTICLEBuddhist Studies Review2007

    Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Amy McNair (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007), 230 pp., $52/£33.50, ISBN 0-8248-2994-8

  • Buddhist Vegetarianism in China

    Open AccessJohn KieschnickCHAPTEROf Tripod and Palate2005

    Vegetarianism is perhaps the most important contribution Buddhism has made to Chinese cuisine.1 Today, Buddhist monks and nuns in China are expected to maintain a vegetarian diet, and as far one can tell, in general they take the prohibition seriously, abstaining from all forms of meat, fish, and eggs. There is more flexibility for the Buddhist laity in China. They are not required to be lifelong vegetarians and, while many are, some choose to ke…

  • Buddhism, War, and Nationalism. Chinese Monks in the Struggle against Japanese Aggressions, 1931–1945. Xue YU

    John KieschnickARTICLEBuddhist Studies Review2005

    Buddhism, War, and Nationalism. Chinese Monks in the Struggle against Japanese Aggressions, 1931–1945. Xue YU. London: Routledge, 2005. xiii, 278 pp. £46.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0415-975115

  • The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture

    John KieschnickBOOKImpact of Buddhism on Chinese…2003

    From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. At the same time, Buddhism had a profound effect on the material world of the Chinese. This wide-ranging study shows that Buddhism brought with it a vast array of objects big and small--relics treasured as parts of the body of the Buddha, prayer beads, and monastic clothing--as well as new ideas about what objects could do and…

  • Kuan-yin

    John Kieschnick, Chun‐fang Yü et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies2002Citada por: 3

  • The Bodhidharma Anthology

    John Kieschnick, Jeffrey L BroughtonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2001Citada por: 1

  • Tang houqi Wudai Songchu Dunhuang sengni de shehui shenghuo 唐後期五代宋初敦煌儈尼的社會生活 (The Social Life of Monks and Nuns at Dunhuang in the Late Tang, Five-Dynasties Period, and Early Song)

    John Kieschnick, Hao Chunwen 郝春文 et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2000

  • The Eminent Monk

    John KieschnickBOOKEminent Monk1997Citada por: 8

  • Analects 12.1 and the Commentarial Tradition

    John KieschnickARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1992Citada por: 1

    The two characters ke ji <E in Analects 12.1, To ke ji and return to propriety is Goodness, have been interpreted in a number of different ways. The two most common interpretations of the phrase-to overcome the self and return to propriety is Goodness, and To be able of oneself to return to propriety is Goodness-imply opposite views of the self, and consequently, human nature, that is to say, one's natural, spontaneous impulses. An examination of…