Charles D. Orzech

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bio	Charles D. Orzech is Professor Emeritus at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received is PhD from the University of Chicago. His primary interests are in cultural contact and interaction and in the fundamental hybridity of human cultural activity. He explores those interests primarily through research on the appropriation and transformation of late Mahāyāna Buddhism in eighth- through thirteenth- century China. he teaches a variety of courses, from introductory Buddhism and Chinese religion to seminars on theories of myth and on semiotics and religious images. His articles and translations have appeared in History of Religions, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Cahiers d’Extreme-Asie, Journal of the International Buddhist Studies Association, Journal of Chinese Religions, and elsewhere. He is the author of Politics and Transcendent Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism (Pennsylvania State University Press, Hermeneutics Series, 1998). More recently, he was the general editor of Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia (1200 pages, E. J. Brill). (Adapted from Source June 2, 2023)
affiliation	University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.