New Book from Professor Jiang Wu

The Department of East Asian Studies is proud to announce the publication of Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, edited by our own Professor Jiang Wu in conjunction with Lucille Chia of the University of California Riverside. The volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era, bringing together investigations of the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation in the development of East Asian Buddhist culture. The book is published by Columbia University Press.