https://www.kevinbuckelew.info/home daily 1.0 2017-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5983c9633a04113207444961/1501809107743-712A75VCCCECWLLKMPWK/DSC_1290.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5983c9633a04113207444961/1501809107743-712A75VCCCECWLLKMPWK/DSC_1290.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5983c9633a04113207444961/1506916591268-PYHHOAGAZ0BGHVB8FHBS/DSC_1383bb.jpg Home Puji Temple 普济寺, Mt. Putuo, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. Photograph by Kevin Buckelew, 2012. https://www.kevinbuckelew.info/research daily 0.75 2025-05-17 https://www.kevinbuckelew.info/about daily 0.75 2024-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5983c9633a04113207444961/1501827003996-4SYDU5KJNA3U3UO867W3/IMG_2233.JPG About https://www.kevinbuckelew.info/publications daily 0.75 2025-03-01 https://www.kevinbuckelew.info/books daily 0.75 2024-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5983c9633a04113207444961/973162b0-714e-4b52-9c03-d8fa99b121dc/Buddhist+Masculinities+cover.png Books - Buddhist Masculinities Columbia University Press, 2023 While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout Asia and around the world, the Buddha remained an exemplary man, but Buddhists in other times and places developed their own understandings of what it meant to be masculine. Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5983c9633a04113207444961/776b37c9-2be5-4f61-8e51-9f01e2387816/Cover.jpeg Books - Discerning Buddhas: Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism Columbia University Press (Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies), 2025 In Song-period China (960–1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan’s appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha? Read more