King, Matthew W.

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In the forest of the blind: the Eurasian journey of Faxian's record of Buddhi…

by King, Matthew W.

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''Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpreta…

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Ocean of milk, ocean of blood. A Mongolian monk in the ruins of the Qing empire

by King, Matthew W.

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After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book, Matthew W. King tells the story of one Mongolian monk's …