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Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia. Edited by Stephanie Balkwill and James A. Benn. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 201. $131.00 (cloth); open access (digital). ISBN: 9789004509610.

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Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia. Edited by Stephanie Balkwill and James A. Benn. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 201. $131.00 (cloth); open access (digital). ISBN: 9789004509610.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2025

Timothy H. Barrett*
Affiliation:
Professor Emeritus of East Asian History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK [email protected]

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

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References

1 Marinus Willem de Visser, Ancient Buddhism in Japan: Sūtras and Ceremonies in Use in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries A.D. and Their History in Later Times (Leiden: Brill, 1935)

2 Gaston Renondeau, Histoire des moines guerriers au Japon [History of the warrior monks of Japan] (Paris: Presses universitaire de France, 1957). Nikolas Broy has published several articles on Chinese warrior monks. See, for example, Nikolas Broy, “Martial Monks in Medieval Chinese Buddhism,” Journal of Chinese Religions 40, no. 1 (2012): 45–89.