Buddhism And Buddhists In China

Author : Lewis Hodus
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 101 pages
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Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Buddhism and Buddhists in China by Lewis Hodus: This book delves into the history and development of Buddhism in China, exploring its impact on the culture, society, and religious practices of the country. Lewis Hodus offers a comprehensive account of how Buddhism spread and adapted within the Chinese context, making it an essential read for those interested in the intersection of religion and Chinese history. Key Aspects of the Book "Buddhism and Buddhists in China": Historical Perspective: Lewis Hodus provides a historical overview of the introduction and growth of Buddhism in China, tracing its journey from India to becoming a significant religious force in the country. Cultural Assimilation: The book explores how Buddhism integrated with Chinese culture, absorbing and influencing local traditions and beliefs in the process. Religious Practices: Hodus sheds light on the various Buddhist practices, rituals, and schools that emerged and thrived in China over the centuries. Lewis Hodus was a renowned scholar and historian with a keen interest in the study of world religions. Born in the late 19th century, he devoted much of his life to understanding and documenting the spread of Buddhism and its cultural impact. His work, Buddhism and Buddhists in China, remains a significant contribution to the field, providing valuable insights into the historical and cultural aspects of Buddhism in China.

Author : Lewis Hodous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 126 pages
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Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387317008

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Buddhism and Buddhists in China by Lewis Hodous Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136378812

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Chinese Buddhism by Joseph Edkins Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Joseph Edkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005676270

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Chinese Buddhism by Joseph Edkins Pdf

Author : Kai Sheng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004431775

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A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life by Kai Sheng Pdf

This book is a study of the formation and the practice of Buddhist canons and an attempt to present as fully as possible the panorama of Chinese Buddhist faith. The book uses textual and archaeological sources, including Dunhuang texts, and adopts multiple perspectives such as textual evidence, historical circumstances, social life, as well as the intellectual background at the time.

Author : Reginald Fleming Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108080330

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Buddhist China by Reginald Fleming Johnston Pdf

An informed 1913 account of Mahayana Buddhism and monasticism by the British administrator and scholar who tutored China's last emperor.

Author : Chün-fang Yü
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824881580

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Chinese Buddhism by Chün-fang Yü Pdf

What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this book, the first introduction to Chinese Buddhism written expressly for students and those interested in an accessible yet authoritative overview of the subject based on current scholarship. After presenting the basic tenets of the Buddha’s teachings and the Chinese religious traditions, the book focuses on topics essential for understanding Chinese Buddhism: major scriptures, worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, rituals and festivals, the monastic order, Buddhist schools such as Tiantai and Chan, Buddhism and gender, and current trends—notably humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan and the resurgence of Buddhism in post-Mao China. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. A convenient glossary of common terms, titles, and names is included.

Author : Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691646152

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Chinese Transformation of Buddhism by Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en Pdf

When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view. Consequently, Buddhism in China has usually been discussed in terms of the Indianization of Chinese life and thought, but Kenneth Ch'en shows that as Indian ideas were gaining ground the Chinese were choosing among them and modifying them to fit their situation. To demonstrate how the Chinese transformed Buddhism the author investigates its role in the ethical, political, literary, educational, and social life of the Chinese. Buddhism was able to gain a wide following by accommodating itself to Chinese ethical practices. The Buddhist monastic community submitted to the jurisdiction of the state and the monasteries also became integrated into the economic life of the empire through their ownership of land and their operation of industrial and commercial enterprises. Through an analysis of the work of a representative Chinese poet the author reveals the ways in which Buddhism came to be reflected in the literary life of China. Finally, he explores the methods used by the Buddhists to popularize their religion. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Lewis Hodus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798614674953

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Buddhism and Buddhists in China by Lewis Hodus Pdf

Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles. Its original form, as preached by Gautama in India and developed in the early years succeeding, and as embodied in the sacred literature of early Buddhism, is not representative of the actual Buddhism of any land today.Moreover Buddhism, like Christianity, has been affected by national conditions. It has developed at least three markedly different types, requiring, therefore, as many distinct volumes of this series for its fair interpretation and presentation.Professor Hodous has written this volume on Buddhism in China out of the ripe experience and continuing studies of sixteen years of missionary service in Foochow, the chief city of Fukien Province, China, one of the important centers of Buddhism. His local studies were supplemented by the results of broader research and study in northern China. No other available writer on the subject has gone so far as he in reproducing the actual thinking of a trained Buddhist mind in regard to the fundamentals of religion. At the same time he has taken pains to exhibit and to interpret the religious life of the peasant as affected by Buddhism. He has sought to be absolutely fair to Buddhism, but still to express his own conviction that the best that is in Buddhism is given far more adequate expression in Christianity.The purpose of each volume in this series is impressionistic rather than definitely educational. They are not textbooks for the formal study of Buddhism, but introductions to its study. They aim to kindle interest and to direct the activity of the awakened student along sound lines. For further study each volume amply provides through directions and literature in the appendices. It seeks to help the student to discriminate, to think in terms of a devotee of Buddhism when he compares that religion with Christianity. It assumes, however, that Christianity is the broader and deeper revelation of God and the world of today.

Author : Erik Zürcher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004263291

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Buddhism in China by Erik Zürcher Pdf

Buddhism in China gathers for the first time Erik Zürcher’s most central papers on Chinese Buddhism, dealing with the translation and language of Buddhist scriptures, interactions with Daoist traditions, activities of Buddhists below elite social levels, and typological comparisons with Christianity.

Author : Marsha Smith Weidner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824823087

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Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism by Marsha Smith Weidner Pdf

This collection of essays on later Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.

Author : Chün-fang Yü
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231552677

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The Renewal of Buddhism in China by Chün-fang Yü Pdf

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. Chün-fang Yü details how in sixteenth-century China, Buddhism entered a period of revitalization due in large part to a cohort of innovative monks who sought to transcend sectarian rivalries and doctrinal specialization. She examines the life, work, and teaching of one of the most important of these monks, Zhuhong (1535–1615), a charismatic teacher of lay Buddhists and a successful reformer of monastic Buddhism. Zhuhong’s contributions demonstrate that the late Ming was one of the most creative periods in Chinese intellectual and religious history. Weaving together diverse sources—scriptures, dynastic history, Buddhist chronicles, monks’ biographies, letters, ritual manuals, legal codes, and literature—Yü grounds Buddhism in the reality of Ming society, highlighting distinctive lay Buddhist practices to provide a vivid portrait of lived religion. Since the book was published four decades ago, many have written on the diversity of Buddhist beliefs and practices in the centuries before and after Zhuhong’s time, yet The Renewal of Buddhism in China remains a crucial touchstone for all scholarship on post-Tang Buddhism. This fortieth anniversary edition features updated transliteration, a foreword by Daniel B. Stevenson, and an updated introduction by the author speaking to the ongoing relevance of this classic work.

Author : Lewis Hodous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798468136003

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Buddhism and Buddhists in China by Lewis Hodous Pdf

Book Excerpt: terary ability and religious fervor to the spreading of the new religion and its success was in no small measure due to their efforts. As a result of this early association the tenets of the two religions seemed so much alike that various emperors called assemblies of Buddhists and Taoists with the intention of effecting a union of the two religions into one. If the emperor was under the influence of Buddhism he tried to force all Taoists to become Buddhists. If he was favorable to Taoism he tried to make all Buddhists become Taoists. But such mandates were as unsuccessful as other similar schemes have been. In the third century A. D. after the Han dynasty had ended, China was broken up into several small kingdoms which contended for supremacy, so that for about four hundred years the whole country was in a state of disunion. One of the strong dynasties of this period, the Northern Wei (386-535 A. D.), was distinctly loyal to Buddhism. During its continuance Buddhism prospered greatly. Although Chinese wer Read More

Author : Lewis Hodous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0282535012

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Buddhism and Buddhists in China (Classic Reprint) by Lewis Hodous Pdf

Excerpt from Buddhism and Buddhists in ChinaThis volume is the third to be published of a series on The World's Living Religions, projected in 1920 by the Board of Missionary Preparation of the Foreign Mis sions Conference of North America. The series seeks to introduce Western readers to the real religious life of each great national area of the non-christian world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Jack Meng-Tat Chia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190090982

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Monks in Motion by Jack Meng-Tat Chia Pdf

Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores why Buddhist monks migrated from China to Southeast Asia, and how they participated in transregional Buddhist networks across the South China Sea. This book tells the story of three prominent monks Chuk Mor (1913-2002), Yen Pei (1917-1996), and Ashin Jinarakkhita (1923-2002) and examines the connected history of Buddhist communities in China and maritime Southeast Asia in the twentieth century. Monks in Motion is the first book to offer a history of what Chia terms "South China Sea Buddhism," referring to a Buddhism that emerged from a swirl of correspondence networks, forced exiles, voluntary visits, evangelizing missions, institution-building campaigns, and the organizational efforts of countless Chinese and Chinese diasporic Buddhist monks. Drawing on multilingual research conducted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Chia challenges the conventional categories of "Chinese Buddhism" and "Southeast Asian Buddhism" by focusing on the lesser-known--yet no less significant--Chinese Buddhist communities of maritime Southeast Asia. By crossing the artificial spatial frontier between China and Southeast Asia, Monks in Motion breaks new ground, bringing Southeast Asia into the study of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism into the study of Southeast Asia.