Japan: Discovery of the Pure Land
A look at the Kamakura period in Japan and the changes that its art works underwent at that time.
The Land of the Disappearing Buddha
David Eckel: Buddhism 21-22 of 24
The twenty-first and twenty-second lectures by Prof David Eckel on Buddhism look at the background to the introduction of Buddhism to Japan, and then at some of the great teachers and the schools they founded.
David Eckel: Buddhism 19-20 of 24
The nineteenth and twentieth lectures by Prof David Eckel on Buddhism look at the religious background to the introduction of Buddhism into China and then at the classical period during the T’ang Dynasty.