Saunders, in Buddhism in Japan, provides interesting detail on the "three treatises" of this school in his discussion of its Japanese counterpart, the Sanron. (ref. pp 115-116)

When I started reading the papers I found its with a lot of names and dates which I could not retain .

I found the statement in the handouts for Lesson 3 that the king ordered the prince and nobles to visit Fo Tucheng every 5 days curious.

Notes for Lecture 1 reference the arrival of Shih Li-fang in 221 BCE, a missionary d

Lesson 11 introduces the Jodo Shu or Japanese Pure Land tradition founded by Honen in 1175,
(ref p.5)

Lesson 8 provides part of Zhisheng's criticism of the Sanjie followers, who "practiced like Devadatta [and] established heretical Buddhism."

In the handouts for Lecture 8, a url is provided for chapters of the Mohe Zhiguan, as translated by Paul Swanson

In reviewing the lecture notes for Lesson 7, I was struggling to understand all of the "five rules for not translating a particular term by meaning, but by just transliteration" (p 21).

As I begin my studies of Chinese Buddhist thought, I can't help but wonder how different the trajectory of the early course of Buddhism would have been with full access to the Pali Nikayas or the Sans

In the handouts for Lesson 6 (p 11) it states that after coming "into power, he started his anti-clerical movement: first a drastic selection of the sangha..."