Buddhism in Japan: With an Outline of Its Origins in India

by E. Dale Saunders

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1971

About the author

E. Dale Saunders (1919–1995) was an American scholar of Romance languages and literature, Japanese Buddhism, classical Japanese literature, and East Asian civilization.

Reviews

[Brad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative. Reads like a textbook. It gave a detailed account of the beginnings of Japanese Buddhism.