Against the usual characterisations of Zhisheng as a kind of modern critical philologist and bibliographer avant la lettre, Forte attempts to show that in certain cases, his judgements were strongly motivated by ideology. Forte, Antonino. “The Relativity of the Concept of Orthodoxy in Chinese Buddhism: Chiih-sheng’s Indictment of Shih-li and the Proscription of the Dharma Mirror Sūtra.” In Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr., 239-250. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1990.
Date: 669-740