X Li

Monastic Careers in Stone: Education, Models of Study and Practice, and Dharma Lineage Transmission in Abbots’ Stele Inscriptions of Yuan-Dynasty Jiangnan

As an important component of Buddhist “non-canonical” literature, the stele inscriptions composed for abbots in Yuan-dynasty Jiangnan preserve a wealth of information on local, temporal, and individual particularity. Drawing on a corpus of stupa inscriptions (ta-ming 塔銘) preser...