Emperor's delicate imbalance : a study on the imperial prefaces of Buddhist canon utilized by the early Tang state

• Main Author: Tay, Yu Xuan
• Other Authors: Nicholas Witkowski
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Religions::Buddhism; Humanities::History::Asia::China; Humanities::Religions::Taoism; Humanities::Philosophy::Chinese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147244
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The conventional understanding of the transition between the Sui dynasty and the Tang dynasty was that the Tang inherited Sui’s policies and institutions. However, this continuation only applies to specific state institutions, not Tang’s religious policies. This paper posits that the early Tang stat...