Mark Halperin is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley in 1997.
Research Interests
Medieval Chinese literature, religion, and literati culture; Han Chinese accounts of border peoples.
Current Projects
An examination of the ties between Buddhist monks and local gods in late Tang and Song China
An examination of the depiction of doctors (yi) in medieval literature.
Major Publications
Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives in Sung China, 960-1279, Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.
"Domesticity and the Dharma: Portraits of Buddhist Laywomen in Sung China" in T'oung Pao 92.1-3 (2006): 50-100.
"Buddhist Temples, the War Dead, and the Song Imperial Cult," in Asia Major, 3rd ser. 12.2 (1999): 71-99.
Honors and Awards
ASUCD Teaching Award, 2003-4
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellowship, 2003-5
University Seed Grant, The Ohio State University, 2001-2
Courses Taught
Great Books of China (CHN 11)
Classical Chinese I (CHN 114)
Classical Chinese II (CHN 115)
Classical Chinese III (CHN 116)
Daoist Traditions (CHN 100A)
Traditional Chinese Literature (CHN 107)
The intense piety of late T'ang essays on Buddhism by literati has helped earn the T'ang its title of the "golden age of Chinese Buddhism." In contrast, the Sung is often seen as an age in which the literati distanced themselves from Buddhism. This study of Sung devotional texts shows, however, that many literati participated in intra-Buddhist debates. Others were drawn to Buddhism because of its power, which found expression and reinforcement in its ties with the state. For some, monasteries were extravagant houses of worship that reflected the corruption of the age; for others, the sacrifice and industry demanded by such projects were exemplars worthy of emulation. Finally, Buddhist temples could evoke highly personal feelings of filial piety and nostalgia.
This book demonstrates that representations of Buddhism by lay people underwent a major change during the T'ang-Sung transition. These changes built on basic transformations within the Buddhist and classicist traditions and sometimes resulted in the use of Buddhism and Buddhist temples as frames of reference to evaluate aspects of lay society. Buddhism, far from being pushed to the margins of Chinese culture, became even more a part of everyday elite Chinese life.
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The temple commemorative inscriptions composed in the Song show a variety that does not appear in those in the Tang. This difference indicates that in the Song, the literati held a subtle and diverse attitude toward Buddhism and Buddhist monasticism, and al...
評分The temple commemorative inscriptions composed in the Song show a variety that does not appear in those in the Tang. This difference indicates that in the Song, the literati held a subtle and diverse attitude toward Buddhism and Buddhist monasticism, and al...
評分The temple commemorative inscriptions composed in the Song show a variety that does not appear in those in the Tang. This difference indicates that in the Song, the literati held a subtle and diverse attitude toward Buddhism and Buddhist monasticism, and al...
評分The temple commemorative inscriptions composed in the Song show a variety that does not appear in those in the Tang. This difference indicates that in the Song, the literati held a subtle and diverse attitude toward Buddhism and Buddhist monasticism, and al...
評分The temple commemorative inscriptions composed in the Song show a variety that does not appear in those in the Tang. This difference indicates that in the Song, the literati held a subtle and diverse attitude toward Buddhism and Buddhist monasticism, and al...
圖書標籤: 宗教 佛教 曆史 海外漢學 宋史 英文原版 海外中國研究 佛教史
開創性地將士人對佛教的態度放在“唐宋變革”的大框架去考察,研究瞭唐宋士人崇佛的根本性不同,並提齣瞭宋代士人"worldly devotion"的概念,非常醍醐灌頂瞭。一嚮覺得預設曆代士大夫都多少對佛教有好感,受佛教影響,隻是根據個人情況好感度不同,影響程度不同,然後去搜尋與某個特定人物相關的資料,羅列一通史料的研究方法並不能給我們真正的啓發。曆史之所以重要便在於每個微小的時間和空間事實上都發生著令人恐怖的巨變,尋求這些矛盾、變化的閤理解釋是曆史工作者的重要任務之一。
評分開創性地將士人對佛教的態度放在“唐宋變革”的大框架去考察,研究瞭唐宋士人崇佛的根本性不同,並提齣瞭宋代士人"worldly devotion"的概念,非常醍醐灌頂瞭。一嚮覺得預設曆代士大夫都多少對佛教有好感,受佛教影響,隻是根據個人情況好感度不同,影響程度不同,然後去搜尋與某個特定人物相關的資料,羅列一通史料的研究方法並不能給我們真正的啓發。曆史之所以重要便在於每個微小的時間和空間事實上都發生著令人恐怖的巨變,尋求這些矛盾、變化的閤理解釋是曆史工作者的重要任務之一。
評分開創性地將士人對佛教的態度放在“唐宋變革”的大框架去考察,研究瞭唐宋士人崇佛的根本性不同,並提齣瞭宋代士人"worldly devotion"的概念,非常醍醐灌頂瞭。一嚮覺得預設曆代士大夫都多少對佛教有好感,受佛教影響,隻是根據個人情況好感度不同,影響程度不同,然後去搜尋與某個特定人物相關的資料,羅列一通史料的研究方法並不能給我們真正的啓發。曆史之所以重要便在於每個微小的時間和空間事實上都發生著令人恐怖的巨變,尋求這些矛盾、變化的閤理解釋是曆史工作者的重要任務之一。
評分開創性地將士人對佛教的態度放在“唐宋變革”的大框架去考察,研究瞭唐宋士人崇佛的根本性不同,並提齣瞭宋代士人"worldly devotion"的概念,非常醍醐灌頂瞭。一嚮覺得預設曆代士大夫都多少對佛教有好感,受佛教影響,隻是根據個人情況好感度不同,影響程度不同,然後去搜尋與某個特定人物相關的資料,羅列一通史料的研究方法並不能給我們真正的啓發。曆史之所以重要便在於每個微小的時間和空間事實上都發生著令人恐怖的巨變,尋求這些矛盾、變化的閤理解釋是曆史工作者的重要任務之一。
評分開創性地將士人對佛教的態度放在“唐宋變革”的大框架去考察,研究瞭唐宋士人崇佛的根本性不同,並提齣瞭宋代士人"worldly devotion"的概念,非常醍醐灌頂瞭。一嚮覺得預設曆代士大夫都多少對佛教有好感,受佛教影響,隻是根據個人情況好感度不同,影響程度不同,然後去搜尋與某個特定人物相關的資料,羅列一通史料的研究方法並不能給我們真正的啓發。曆史之所以重要便在於每個微小的時間和空間事實上都發生著令人恐怖的巨變,尋求這些矛盾、變化的閤理解釋是曆史工作者的重要任務之一。
Out of the Cloister 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載