Eric Greene is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Yale. He completed his Ph.D. in 2012, under the supervision of Robert Sharf. He specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism. Much of his recent research has focused on Buddhist meditation practices, including the history of the transmission on Indian meditation practices to China, the development of distinctly Chinese forms of Buddhist meditation, and Buddhist rituals of confession and atonement. He is currently writing a book on the uses of meditative visionary experience as evidence of sanctity within early Chinese Buddhism. In addition to these topics, he has published articles on the early history of Chan (Zen), Buddhist paintings from the Silk Roads, the influence of modern psychological terminology on the Western interpretation of Buddhism, and Buddhist vegetarianism in China. He is also presently working on a long-term project on the translation practices of An Shigao, the first translator of Indian Buddhist texts into Chinese.
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Dissertation: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism[electronic resource](link is external). 2012. 664 p.