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In 1954, Yinshun 印順 (1906–2003), perhaps the most respected and certainly the most prolific Chinese monastic of the twentieth century, completed a collection of essays titled Researching Buddhism with Buddhism.1 Born in the final years of the Qing dynasty and witness to political reform, modern warfare, industrialization, and revolution, Yinshun was a bridge from the traditional Buddhist background and concerns of the monks and laymen I discuss for most of this book to the scholars who research Buddhism today in the offices and libraries of modern international universities. Keenly aware that, like the politics and society that surrounded him, Buddhism too required rapid, radical reform, Yinshun rejected as antiquated many of the scholarly techniques and assumptions discussed here—recourse to prophecy, ready acceptance of the miraculous, the belief that sutras transmitted to China were all the word of the Buddha, the assertion that an unbroken genealogical chain of master and disciples transmitted Buddhist truths from ancient Indian to modern China, and so on. Nonetheless, in the preface to Researching Buddhism with Buddhism, rather than simply embracing the conventions of modern academic research, Yinshun instead attempted to lay out a modern but at the same time Buddhist approach to scholarship, and specifically to history.