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Zen and the Art of Librarianship (2019)
Journal Article
Barrett, T. (2019). Zen and the Art of Librarianship. Journal of Chan Buddhism: East Asian and Global Perspectives, 1, 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1163/25897179-12340002

This paper explores widely held misconceptions about the publishing of East Asian religious books, bibliographies and canons connected to a tradition that appears to foreswear books altogether – Zen Buddhism in China and Japan. Zen and East Asian Bud... Read More about Zen and the Art of Librarianship.

Faxian and the Meaning of Bianwen 變文: The Value of His Biography to the Study of China (2019)
Journal Article
Barrett, T. (2019). Faxian and the Meaning of Bianwen 變文: The Value of His Biography to the Study of China. Hualin international journal of Buddhist studies, 2(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.02.01.01

Abstract: In 1989 Victor Mair published a monograph entitled T’ang Transformation Texts that has subsequently come to determine the translation used for the term bianwen 變文 in English as ‘transformation’. In 1991 I published in the Journal of the R... Read More about Faxian and the Meaning of Bianwen 變文: The Value of His Biography to the Study of China.